1Health Promotion And Prevention Flashcards
Community organizing
definition and example
Process where individuals, groups and organizations engage in planned action to influence social problems
Ex: antiviolence campaign: resources of community brought together to create interventions (programs) to deal with the violence problem.
Changes in community social structure that lead to loss of sense of community
Electronics
Communications
People moving
Social distancing
Community organizing process
- Identify the issue
- Community (you need entry-trust)
- Organize the people
- Determining priorities and setting goals
- Solution identification and intervention strategies
Finally: implementing, evaluating, maintaining, looping back
Community organizing process
- Identify the issue
Intitial organizer
Recognize problem and deciding to do something about it
Grassroots: initiated by someone within the community
Top-down: from an outsider
Community organizing process
- Community (you need entry—trust)
Organizers need:
Organizers need to know:
Gatekeepers:
Organizers need:
-cultural sensivity, competence, humility
Organizers need to know:
-who/what is causing problem and why
-how problem has been addressed in past
-who supports and opposes idea
-who could provide more insight
Gatekeepers:
-any who give you access (school board members, police, principle)
Community organizing process
- Organize the people
Need
Task force vs coalition
Leadership identification
Recruitiment
Task force:
-deal with a problem (once problem is gone task force is done)
Coalition: common goal (issue isnt going away anytime soon)
Community organization process
- Determining priorities and setting goals criteria to consider when selecting priority issue:
(5)
Criteria:
-Problem must be winnable
-Must be simple and specific
-Must unite members of organizing group
-Should affect many people
-Should be part of larger plan
Community organizing process
- Solution identification and intervention strategies
Alternative solutions exist for every problem
Acceptibility to community
Probable long and short term effects
Costs of resources
Community capacity development strategy
Empowering those impacted by a problem with knowledge and skills to understand problem and then work together to deal with the problem.
Ex: person whose been attacked by police or shot wanting to deal with nra and gun laws or police reform
Social advocacy
Address a problem through the application of pressure on those who have created the problem or stand as a barrier to a solution to the problem
Georgia shooting putting pressure on NRA
Community health nursing
Primary client is the community
Focus is on preventing illness and protecting health
Community based nursing
Primary client is the individual, family, or groups
Focus more on illnesses:
All levels of prevention, but mostly secondary/tertiary
Secondary: early diagnosis & tx
Tertiary: rehabilitation
Health promotion program
How communities describe, analyze, and intervene to solve existing health problems
such as:
disease outbreaks or other community problems
Goals vs objectives
Goals: overall direction for the program (general)
Take longer to complete
Objectives: precise than goals
Steps to achieve the programs goals
Pilot test
Trail run to a small group
Determine problems and fix before full implementation
