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.

Empowerment. This is  a process of participation and cooperation that supports people in acquiring more authority over their own health, and can help communities set goals, mobilise resources and develop plans to solve public health problems.  (The WHO considers empowerment a prerequisite for health and conducive for achieving equality in health and quality of life.)
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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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