Community Action
4 important questions on Community Action
Community participation. Name the principles.
- Active involvement of individual community members
- not all, but broad representation
- In all phases: problem analysis, needs assessment, priority setting, and development, implementation and evaluation of interventions
- Process of interaction and feedback
- Taking part in decision making at all levels
What are challenges in community action?
- Tension between community members, researchers and health professionals – different perspectives
- Organisations and sectors have different ‘frames (Highly specialised organisations have been established. With own philosophy, own culture, own value and norm system and own rituals)
- Community action often implies a different way of thinking and working for those involved
- Requires new competences of not only scientists, but all those involved
What lies at the core of Health promotion? And explain what this concept is.
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What does Community capacity refer to?
It refers to a clustering of human expertise and the material and social resources and means of power that enable a community to solve health problems.
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