PRECEDE/PROCEED Model

PRECEDE/PROCEED is an applied model for comprehensive planning of projects in health education based on COPC.1 It has served as a successful model in a number of rigorously evaluated, randomized clinical field trials and as an analytical tool for health education policy on a national and international scale.

The model involves a series of steps that take into account the multiple factors that shape health status. The PRECEDE segment first helps the planner develop specific targets for intervention, specific objectives, and the criteria for evaluation. The PROCEED segment then considers the factors that make social systems and environments conducive to healthy lifestyles. It helps the planner identify necessary political, managerial and economic actions. The identification of priorities and the setting of objectives in the PRECEDE phase provide the objectives and criteria for policy, implementation, and evaluation in the PROCEED phase.
 
PRECEDE stands for:
       Predisposing
       Reinforcing
       Enabling
       Constructs in
       Educational
       Diagnosis and
       Evaluation       
Precede helps especially with the Plan and Do steps of the PDCA Cycle or the Organize, Prioritize, Assess, Review, and Intervene steps of COPC.

PROCEED stands for:
       Policy
       Regulation and
       Organizational
       Constructs in
       Education and
       Environmental
       Development

PROCEED helps especially with the Do and Check step of the PDCA Cycle or the Review, Intervene and Evaluate steps of COPC. 

So the Precede/Proceed tool helps plan and evaluate an intervention while considering the factors that shape health status and the social systems necessary to improve it. It also, like CQI and COPC, is a continuous series of steps that help with planning, implementing, and evaluating a project and it, also, emphasizes participation at all stages by all stakeholders.

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References

1 Green, L, Kreuter, M, The Preceed/Procede Model. Health Promotion Planning: An Educational and Environmental Approach, 2nd Edition. Mayfield Publishing Co., 1991