Health Interventions: A Case Study

Most health promotion and health care interventions target to better health through the agency of health behaviour; they aim at achieving better health by motivating the participants towards a health behaviour change. Some interventions primarily aim to enhance participants’ physical or mental health by clinical or therapeutic treatment. Perceptions of satisfactory general health status, stable and positive psychological wellbeing and self-esteem or good physical condition and functioning can help unemployed job seekers to be more competitive in labour market and to succeed in obtaining a job. To achieve this goal, a range of different methods are used.

By providing information and education interventions can increase health competency and awareness of issues that may be harmful for health. Information and education as part of a health intervention aim, for the most part, to form a basis for a health behaviour change and healthy lifestyle. Issues handled are various and typical health promotion topics: smoking, alcohol use, diabetes, obesity, physical exercise, nutrition, stress and other psychosocial conditions. Information can be delivered face-to-face, in groups, by printed or digital materials, for example through
Professionals may use for example techniques of motivational interviewing (Limm 2015), which is a person-centered form of communication and co-operation that seeks to evoke the person’s own motivation and commitment for a change. Counselling can be proceeded according to the transtheoretical model (TTM), which is an integrative, biopsychosocial model to conceptualise the process of intentional behaviour change. To be successful, counselling and guidance often require repeated meetings. Interventions may also contain one-to-one or peer support which are often integrated with other