Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents: A framework for planning: Key concepts -- The precede-proceed model -- How does the precede-proceed model work? -- Hallmarks -- Social assessment, participatory planning, and situation analysis: Social diagnosis and participation: The rationale -- Quality of life: An expression of ultimate values -- Measuring quality of life -- The principle and process of participation -- The capacity-building and sustainability case for participation -- Methods and strategies for social diagnosis and situation analysis -- Using data from a social assessment and situation analysis to map the planning process -- Epidemological diagnosis: Health, behavioral, and environmental assessments: Starting in the middle: A reality for practitioners -- Key principles and terms of descriptive epidemiology -- Setting priorities and objectives for health programs -- Etiology: Why do thosde with the problem have it? -- Behavioral diadnosis -- Environmental diagnosis -- Evaluation summary -- Ecological and educational diagnosis: Factors influencing behavior and the environment -- Predisposing factors -- Enabling factors -- Selecting determinants of behavior and environmental change -- Program, administrative, and policy design: Turning the corner from formative to process evaluation, from precede to proceed: Some definitions -- Aligning priority determinants with program components -- The administrative assessment and process evaluation -- Policy assessment and accountability -- Implementation and evaluation: Ensuring reach, coverage, quality, impact, and outcomes -- Estimating and calculating the inputs and outputs of your program -- Applications in communities: Community: A medium for change and a changing medium -- Coalitions: Compelling, important, but not easy and not a panacea -- Applications in communities -- Applications in occupational settings: The ecological context of workplace health programs -- Caveats -- Application of precede-proceed -- A case study: Air quality control in a state agency -- Applications in educational settings: What is a school health program? -- Progress in school health research and policy -- Using precede and proceed for planning in schools -- Precede-proceed and schools: A hypothetical case -- Applications in health care setting: Disease prevention, health promotion, and self-care as priorities of clinical care -- An ecological and community approach to health care -- Patient considerations in targeting interventions -- Applications of educational and ecological assessment to individual patients -- A hierarchy of factors affecting self-care behavior -- Changing the behavior of health care staff -- Educational and ecological assessment of practitioners' behavior.