Part 3: The Socio-Ecological Model: A Pathway to Prevention

Introduction

The third and final presentation in Module 1, The Socio-Ecological Model: A Pathway to Prevention, provides an overview of the socio-ecological model as a framework for primary prevention. In this presentation, you will learn how violence victimization and perpetration may stem from individual, relationship, community and societal factors.

Competencies addressed:

• Ability to describe and explain injury and/or violence as a major social and health problem.
• Explain how injury and/or violence is preventable
• Explain the continuum of injury and violence prevention from primary prevention to acute care and rehabilitation
• Describe how conceptual models (e.g., Haddon Matrix, social ecological model, etc.) are used to portray the multiple factors underlying injury and/or violence
• Describe the influence of a variety of factors (including age, gender, race, ethnicity, education, access to economic resources, sexual orientation, creed, community norms, access to health care services, and the environment) on injury and/or violence prevention

• Ability to access, interpret, use and present injury and/or violence data.
• Describe how data can be used to identify disparate populations
• Explain how data can be used to identify emerging issues in injury and/or violence
• Explain the importance of data for use in priority setting, program planning, evaluation, and advocacy in injury and/or violence prevention

• Ability to design and implement injury and/or violence prevention activities.
• Describe various levels where prevention activities can be focused (e.g., intrapersonal, interpersonal, institutional, community, public policy)
• Demonstrate the use of a conceptual model (e.g., Haddon Matrix, social ecological model, etc.) for identifying intervention opportunities

Learning objectives:

• Describe how violence results from a complex interaction of factors
• Describe the "Socio-Ecological Model"
• Describe violence examples at each level of the model

Suggested prerequisites:

• Part 1: Moving Upstream: The Story of Prevention
• Part 2: The Public Health Approach to Violence Prevention

Length of presentation: 30 minutes

Terms used in this presentation: Indicated, Protective factors, Primary prevention, Risk factors, Secondary prevention, Selected, Socio-ecological model, Tertiary prevention, and Universal

Created and narrated by: Janet Place, MPH

Music: Janet Place

Reviewers: Carol Runyan, UNC Injury Prevention Research Center; Richard Dunville, Janet Saul, and Jennifer Middlebrooks, The National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, CDC; Pete Hutchinson, Youth Empowerment Solutions for Peaceful Communities

Date of release: July 2005