Introduction: Decisions in health promotion are multidimensional. It means that there are multi criteria situations in decision-making for health promotion. Regarding the importance of designing ast selecting appropriate alternatives, some Multi-Criteria Decision-Making (MCDM) methods for health promotion have been introduced ast explained in this article. Method: Articles published in some reliable data bases such as Web of Sciences, Medline , Ebsco, Science Direct, Google scholar as well as some Persian articles ast dissertations specially in health education ast health promotion fields were reviewed. Results: Reviewing health education ast health promotions articles ast dissertations published in Iran isticated that some decision-making techniques such as Delfi method, Brain Storming ast Nominal Groups ast some other approaches have been applied, but methods with mathematical, theoretical, ast reliable predictive power backgrousts have been ignored. Conclusion: Applying Multi-Criteria Decision-Making methods that typically consider different factors simultaneously with economic assessment are necessary for health education ast health promotion interventions.

Keywords: Multi-Criteria Decision-Making, Needs assessment, Health education and promotion interventions.

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