How does the MAPP framework differ from the CHANGE tool in community health planning?

In the CHANGE model, program planning is only the final phase; the model has eight phases and only its last phase, developing the community action plan, concerns program planning. In MAPP, by contrast, the action cycle itself is the program planning phase.

MAPP and CHANGE are both community health planning models used in current practice. The source explicitly distinguishes them: CHANGE has eight phases, and only the last phase, developing the community action plan, deals with program planning. MAPP, however, has an action cycle that serves as the program planning phase. This means the frameworks place program planning in different structural positions, with MAPP embedding program planning in its action cycle and CHANGE sequencing it as the final step after earlier phases.