Community Development
T or F Community participation is a passive process in which the community identifies its needs and works in partnership with health professionals to meet its needs for improved health
False, it is an active process.
•Magnitude of Concern
•Availability of Resources
•Need for additional training
•How much additional resources are needed for an equitable, efficient and cost effective response?
What factors contribute to prioritizing community issues?
•Changes in health awareness
•Changes in knowledge or attitude
•Behavior change
•Policy changes
•Changes in physical environment
•Changes in Health Status
What may be assessed in program evaluation?
Where we blame the community for external factors that affect their health like poverty, racism.
What is victim blaming
It refers to how stakeholders in communities are mobilized in determining their needs and/or ways of addressing these needs
What is community engagement?
Set aims and objectives
What is the second step in program planning.
•Specifying assigned tasks to be done, by whom, within what time period can help - and build in some realistic & creative flexibility!
What is managing tasks and time.
The creation of sustainable structures, processes and mechanism over which local communities have an increased degree of control and from which they have measureable impact on public and social policies affecting those communities” (Craig, 2002)
What is the connection between community development and empowerment?
It involves the active participation of individuals, groups and communities in identifying their own needs.
What is community development?
Broad terms to provide a general rationale for the program, they are statements, usually general & abstract, of desired states in human conditions and social environments.
What are program planning goals?
•Questions regarding appropriate strategies must be considered simultaneously with questions about resources, including people and time.
•This tends to be a back and forth process.
•Many kinds of strategies can be created and recreated
What are some designing actions?
•self-esteem
•cultural identity
•ability to critically reflect & problem solve
•ability to make choices
•self discipline
•ability to work with others
What are the indicators for all person in the empowerment process?
Community Development builds on the blank of individuals and groups to increase their ability to organize and improve their own health, and leas to a process of addressing the broader determinants of health.
What is strengths.
specific, measurable, action plan, realistic, time limit?
What is SMART goal setting.
“The systematic examination & assessment of features of a program or other intervention in order to produce knowledge that different stakeholders can use for a variety of purposes
What is health promotion evaluations
•Increased access to resources
•Increased collective bargaining power
•Increased legitimization of one’s group demands by officials or authority
What are the indicators of empowerment success for less powerful persons in the empowering relationship
•Assists in the development of health services and programs based upon community assessments, in order to meet the health needs of the community.
What is the role of the PHN in Community development?
•health awareness
•improved knowledge
•self-empowerment
•changing attitudes or behaviors
•societal/environmental change?
What are program planning outcomes?
•To look at health indicator changes. Did your interventions work?
Why evaluate?
•The move from the historical ‘service delivery’ role to working with uncertainty, chaos and lack of direction which is often a part of community development
What is the nurse’s professional role in Community development?