• #245 (TC3A-1) Integration of Family Science and Public Health Through the Life Course Framework

      Presented by: Kevin Roy, Marian Moser Jones

• #245 (TC3A-2) Family Health Behaviors Model: A Conceptual Framework for Family Research and Interventions

       Presented by: Diego Garcia-Huidobro and Sharon Danes

Abstracts

• #245 (TC3A-1) Integration of Family Science and Public Health Through the Life Course Framework

      Presented by: Kevin Roy, Marian Moser Jones

The life course framework offers substantial promise as a theoretical bridge between public health research and family science research, in which both fields could find a common approach to the study of health in families and society.  In this paper, we first explore the state of the life course framework in each field separately. We identify overlaps in development of life course concepts and dimensions between the two fields.  Finally, we address challenges and complications in an integrated life course framework, which need to be addressed with the emergence of new family health research and practice.

• #245 (TC3A-2) Family Health Behaviors Model: A Conceptual Framework for Family Research and Interventions

       Presented by: Diego Garcia-Huidobro and Sharon Danes

The paper presents the Family Health Behavior Model. It explains health behaviors as a function of behavioral intention, determined by personal, familial, and environmental interactions. The model integrates dynamics and influence of relationships and interaction of families within their contexts from family theories with criteria and conditions for changing behavior from health behavioral theories. Because most health behaviors are developed, maintained, and changed within families, this unit seems important to explain behavioral change and to target clinical interventions.