“Picking your battles” in the context of a health promotion program means in order to put in place a public health or health promotion intervention is it best to do it with rationale or planning frame work in mind. Frameworks help combine assessments of the problem through what is known as the assessment of risk factors which is an investigation of the behavioral and environmental risk factors linked to the health conditions you want to address. This is done through local surveys, focus group, or other data from public health sources, or from schools, community groups, or work-related sources (e.g., unions); environmental risk data from environmental agencies, public health agencies or organizations.

Please provide an example of how you would apply this framework to a decision making process?