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Health Education Research, Vol. 17, No. 6, 696-699, December 2002
© 2002 Oxford University Press

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Response to Connelly. Response from the Behavior Change Consortium Representativeness and Translation Work Group: the issue is one of impact, not of world view or preferred approach

Russell E. Glasgow, David A. Dzewaltowski1, Paul A. Estabrooks1, Lisa M. Klesges2 and Sheana S. Bull3

Kaiser Permanente Colorado, Denver, CO 80237, 1 Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506, 2 University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN 38163 and 3 University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Aurora, CO 80045, USA

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Professor Connelly raises a number of important issues in his critique (Connelly, 2002Go) of the ongoing Behavior Change Consortium (BCC) projects. Several of the larger philosophy of science and methodological issues are addressed in the accompanying response by Williams (Williams, 2002Go) and will not be discussed here due to space limitations.

Our work group basically agrees with Professor Connelly’s point that greater attention to social, contextual and economic factors related to unhealthy behaviors is a useful approach (McLeroy et al., 1988Go; Bronfenbrenner, 1989Go; Dzewaltowski, 1997Go; Estabrooks, 2000Go; Glasgow, 2000; Glasgow and Bull, 2001Go; Institute of Medicine, 2001Go; Berkman and Kawachi, 2002Go). However, we also believe in the fundamental tenet of ecological theory that it is the interaction between an individual AND her/his environment that produces behavioral outcomes (Bronfenbrenner, 1989Go). Professor Connelly suggests that projects in the BCC are too . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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