Community Level Flashcards
Community organization model key concepts
Social planning
Locality development
Social action
Ecological approaches summary
Effective interventions must influence multiple levels because health is shaped by many environmental subsystems, including family, community, workplace, beliefs and traditions, economics and the physical and social environments
Ecological approaches key concepts
Multiple levels of influence:
Intra personal, interpersonal, institutional, community and public policy
Organizational change theory summary
Certain process and strategies might increase the chance that health policies and programs will be adopted and maintained in formal organizations
Organizational change theory key concepts
Definition of problem (awareness of stage)
Initiation of action(adoption stage)
Implementation of change
Institutionalizations of Change
Diffusion of innovations theory
People, organizations or societies adopt new ideas, products
, or behaviours at different rates and the rate of adoption is affected by some predictable factors
Diffusion of innovation theory key concepts
Relative advantage Compatibility Complexity Trial ability Observability
Community organization model summary
Public health workers help communities, identify health and social problems and they plan and implement strategies to address these problems. Active community participation is essential