ASSET VS. DEFICIT
This approach focuses on the strengths and positive qualities of a community.
What is the asset-based approach?
Resources in a community include goods, services, and these people who live and work there.
What are community members/people/residents?
In the "Who Do You See?" image, some people see an old woman while others see this person.
What is a young woman?
Social, economic, and political factors that influence health are called this.
What are upstream causes?
This approach judges a community based on what it's missing or what's "wrong" with it.
What is the deficit-based approach?
These rules, laws, or decisions made by organizations or governments can function as either assets or barriers to health.
What are policies?
In the cemetery story, one man brought roses while the other brought this food item.
What is soup?
Oversimplified or unfair beliefs about a group of people that can harm community health.
What are stereotypes?
When community members hear only negative things about their community from outsiders, they may experience this - doubting their community's capabilities and potential.
What is internalizing negativity (or losing confidence/hope)?
A community garden is an example of a resource that provides these two health benefits: access to healthy food and this social benefit.
What is social connection/community building/relationships?
The cemetery story teaches us that no one culture is more important than another; they are just this.
What is different?
People who live in a community and experience daily life there are called this, while researchers and media are called outsiders.
What are insiders/community members?
This type of thinking is often called the "glass half-full" approach to viewing communities.
What is asset-based thinking?
A lack of sidewalks in a neighborhood could function as this to health by making it unsafe to walk and reducing physical activity.
What is a barrier?
When a city decides to build a casino, some residents may see it as providing jobs while others worry about these three negative effects.
What are increased gambling, drinking, and violence/traffic?
These three types of things make up community resources.
What are goods, services, and people?
These three negative outcomes can happen when a community is viewed only through a deficit-based lens: stereotypes may form, positive attributes may be overlooked, and community members may experience this.
What is doubt/loss of confidence/internalized negativity?
Public transportation is an example of a resource that helps people access these three important things for health.
What are jobs, healthcare/medical appointments, and healthy food/grocery stores?
This is necessary for successful social advocacy and requires people on both sides of an issue to respect each other's perspectives.
What is partnership/collaboration?
Examples of these upstream causes include income, education, housing, and neighborhood safety.
What are social, economic, and political factors (that influence health)?