impact of schools and community-based projects on society
Although many school and community-based projects are having a great impact on society, they require evidence to allow effective evaluation of social policies and healthy lifestyle approaches.
It would be fascinating if the public health sector would encourage its health promotion investigators to use measures that are directly related to health gain for instance; avoiding many and rising cases of disability and saving lives. Comparative value of alternative public health investments should be assessed regularly even if it’s not easy to always use cost-utility analysis such as quality-adjusted life-years (QALYs). It would be desirable for the health sector to give an estimation of the health gain they have achieved for a specific period. In case they have failed to achieve certain goals, they should explain clearly why they failed to provide a good understanding of differentiating descriptive theories and health promotion interventions. , make it possible for the researchers in public health to fully focus on offering tangible consumer benefit to the society as opposed to academic excellence.
Successful implementation and knowledge of effective interventions are some of the requirements of evidence-based health promotion programs. Therefore, health educators need to dedicate time, thoughts, and try to understand what’s contained in this program before implementing it. In collaboration with their partners, they should identify the program’s requirements and get feedback. If programs are planned poorly or fail to include theories during the planning process, they lead to a lot of wastage in terms of the human resources used and time and they might eventually fail after a short period. Therefore, for a relevant community assessment to take place, it should follow a program planning which includes; mobilizing the targeted people and stakeholders, setting goals and objectives, design of the strategies of the program, considering factors that prevent implementation, putting into use the intervention and lastly observing the process of putting the program into action.