The PRECEDE–PROCEED model is a participatory model for creating successful community health promotion and other public health interventions. It is based on the premise that behavior change is by and large voluntary, and that health programs are more likely to be effective if they are planned and evaluated with the active participation of those people who will have to implement them, and those who are affected by them. Thus, it looks at health and other issues must be looked at inwithin the context of the community. Interventions designed for behavior change to help prevent injuries and violence,<ref name="Freire06" /> to improve heart-healthybehaviorshealth,<ref name="Paradis95">Paradis, G., O'Loughlin, J., Elliott, M., Masson, P., Renaud, L., Sacks-Silver, G., Lampron, G. (1995). Coeur en santé St-Henri – a heart health promotion programme in a low income, low education neighbourhood in Montreal, Canada: theoretical model and early field experience. ''Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health''. 49(5): 503–51</ref> and those to improve and increase scholarly productivity among health education faculty,<ref name="Ransdell01" /> are among the more than 1000 published applications that have been developed or evaluated that useusing the PRECEDE–PROCEED model as a guideline.{{citation needed}}
