Build the Asthma Home-Visit Logic Model
Construct a practical logic model that exposes whether a public health program can plausibly create its intended outcome.
The asthma coalition wants fewer pediatric emergency visits, but the plan jumps from home visits to outcomes without showing the pathway. Logic model: inputs -> activities -> outputs -> short-term outcomes -> longer-term outcomes, with assumptions made explicit The common trap is counting home visits as success while leaving the actual exposure pathway unchanged. Before Home visits will reduce asthma emergency visits. After Nurse visits identify triggers, families receive coaching and supplies, code-enforcement referrals address housing triggers, and symptom-control follow-up shows whether emergency risk is falling. Inputs List nurse hours, community health worker time, HEPA filters, landlord/code-enforcement contact, data system…
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