Community Models of Care Flashcards
What is the Health Communities Movement
- has origins in 1980’s
- the fundamental core value of the HC approach is capacity building and empowerment of individuals, organizations, and communities
- the HC approach is used around the world
5 Building blocks for a Healthy Community
- Community/citizen engagement
- Multi-sectoral collaboration
- Political Commitment
- Healthy public policy
- Asset-based community development
Community/citizen engagement
- involving the community and residents in decision-making processes and health-related activities
- empowering citizens to actively participate in shaping policies, programs, and initiatives that affect their well-being
Multi-sectoral collaboration
- fostering partnerships and collaboration among different sectors such as healthcare, education, government, business, and community organizations
- recognizing that health is influenced by various factors beyond the healthcare system requires a holistic, collaborative approach
Political Commitment
- gaining the support and commitment of political leaders and policymakers to prioritize and invest public health initiatives
- ensuring that health considerations are integrated into broader policy agendas
Healthy Public Policy
- developing and implementing policies that support health and well-being at the community level
What is an Asset-based Community development?
- recognizing and leveraging the strengths, skills and resources within the community
- focusing on the positive aspects and assets of the community to promote sustainable development and wellbeing
- ex. Infrastructure geared toward a demographic
- in Cherryhill (an older population), stores in the mall are geared toward the older pop
What are Community Health Nursing Standards
- Health promotion - the process pf enabling people to increase control over and to improve their health
- Prevention and Health Protection - CHN minimize the occurrence of disease or injuries and their consequences
- Health Maintenance, Restoration, and Palliation - CHN integrates into their practice to maintain max function, improve health, and support life transitions including acute, chronic, or termina illness, and end-o life
- Professional Relationships - CHN works with others to establish, build, and nurture professional and therapeutic relationships. Relationships include optimizing participation, and self-determination of the client
- Capacity Building - CHN partners with the client to promote capacity
- Health Equity - CHN recognizes the impacts of the determinants of health and incorporates actions into their practice such as advocating for healthy public policy
- Evidence Informed practice - CHN uses evidence t guide nursing practice and support clients in making informed decisions
- Professional Responsibility & Accountability - CHN demonstrate professional responsibility and accountability as a fundamental component of their autonomous practice
What are Public Health Competencies (& CHNC Standards)
- Professional Relationships - CHN works with others to establish, build, and nurture professional and therapeutic relationships. Relationships include optimizing participation, and self-determination of the client
- Capacity Building - CHN partners with the client to promote capacity
- Health Equity - CHN recognizes the impacts of the determinants of health and incorporates actions into their practice such as advocating for healthy public policy
- Evidence Informed practice - CHN uses evidence t guide nursing practice and support clients in making informed decisions
- Professional Responsibility & Accountability - CHN demonstrate professional responsibility and accountability as a fundamental component of their autonomous practice
What is Population Health
- an approach to health that aims to improve the health of the entire population and to reduce inequities among population groups
- it acts upon the broad range of factors and conditions that influence health
- healthy populations contribute to the overall productivity and quality of life in a community
What is Health Promotion?
- the process of enabling people to increase control over and to improve their health
What elements are involved in the Ottawa Charter for health promotion?
- strengthen community action
- develop personal skills
- create supportive environments
- reorient health services
What are the components of Population Health Promotion
- Action strategies - the HOW
- Levels of action - the WHO
- Foundations - the WHY
- Determinants - the WHAT
Action strategies - the HOW
- used to address health-related issues
Ex.
- building healthy public policy
- strengthen community action
-create supportive environments
- develop personal skills
- re-orient health services
Levels of action - the WHO
- Identifies level of intervention necessary to promote health
Ex. - Society
- Structural or System
- Family
- Individual
- Community
Foundations - the WHY
- Base of the model
- Gives direction for action on pop health grounded in evidence-based decision, making, research, values, assumptions, and
Ex.
- research
- evaluations
- values
Determinants - the WHAT
- income and social status
- work/working conditions
- healthy child development
- physical environments
- personal coping skills
- social support networks
- social environments
- education
- genetics
- health services
- culture
- gender