Description
The Violence Prevention Alliance uses an ecological framework to understand the apparent relationship of pregnancy and delivery complications to violence in youth and young adulthood when combined with problems within the family (World Health Organization, n.d.). This interaction of an individual risk factor (e.g., age, education, income, substance use, or history of abuse) with a relationship factor (e.g., social circle-peers, partners, and family members) can help explain violence later in life. It also helps to identify the intervention strategies based on the ecological levels in which they act, such as implementing home visitation interventions that can have a positive impact at the relationship level (i.e., the bond between parent and child).
A socioecological model proposes that health is influenced by factors at the individual, interpersonal, organizational, community, and policy levels. Efforts to modify health behaviors and prevent disease must take into account risk factors at each of these levels. In this Discussion, you will review research that takes an ecological or systems approach to the identification of risk factors in multivariate, multilevel public health problems and explore the interaction among risk and protective factors, outcomes, and other elements of the problem.
Choose one of the five research articles below for the discussion.
Assink, M., van der Put, C. E., Meeuwsen, M. W. C. M., de Jong, N. M., Oort, F. J., Stams, G. J. J. M., & Hoeve, M. (2019). Risk factors for child sexual abuse victimization: A meta-analytic review,Psychological Bulletin, 145(5), 459–489. https://doi.org/10.1037/bul0000188
El-Ammari, A., El Kazdouh, H., Bouftini, S., El Fakir, S., & El Achhab, Y. (2020). Social-ecological influences on unhealthy dietary behaviours among Moroccan adolescents: A mixed-methods study
Public Health Nutrition, 23(6), 996–1008. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1368980019003641
Latkin, C., Dayton, L. A., Yi, G., Konstantopoulos, A., Park, J., Maulsby, C., & Kong, X. (2021). COVID-19 vaccine intentions in the United States, a social-ecological framework Vaccine, 39(16), 2288–2294.
Linde-Arias, A. R., Roura, M., & Siqueira, E. (2020). Solidarity, vulnerability and mistrust: How context, information and government affect the lives of women in times of Zika BMC Infectious Diseases, 20(263), 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12879-020-04987-8
Tamura, K., Langerman, S. D., Ceasar, J. N., Andrews, M. R., Agrawal, M., & Powell-Wiley, T. M. (2019). Neighborhood social environment and cardiovascular disease risk Current Cardiovascular Risk Report, 13, 7. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12170-019-0601-5
Submit a post in which you:
Explain how the article takes an ecological or systems approach to the identification of risk factors or variables at multiple levels.
Explain how the problem identified in the article you selected affects community health at the personal level and at the social level.
Describe how the conceptual framework addresses the interaction among risk factors, outcomes, and other elements of the problem (e.g., confounding, mediating, or moderating factors).
