Community Organizing

Question 1

Community health can only be achieved
unless the community health professional
understands the

Answer 1

dynamics of organizing a
community

Question 2

Among the most important skills what should also be possessed by a public health worker?

Answer 2

ability to plan a community health
promotion/disease prevention
program

Question 3

Is Community organizing and community development are similar terms and also its meaning?

Answer 3

No.

They are similar terms that have different meanings.

Question 4

“brings people together to combat shared problems and increase their say about decisions that affect their lives.

Answer 4

Community organizing

Question 5

“occurs when people form their own organizations
provide long-term capacity to solve their problems.“

Answer 5

Community development

Question 6

Difference between Community Organizing and Community Development?

Answer 6

Community Org-organizing a people from the community by any person
Community Dev- they form their own org

Question 7

Seven assumptions for community
organization: (should remember)

Answer 7

1. Communities of people can develop capacity to deal with their
   own problems.
2. People want to change and can change.
3. People should participate in the major changes taking place in their communities.
4. Changes in community that are self-imposed or self-developed
   have a meaning and permanence than imposed changes.
5. A ‘holistic approach’ can deal successfully with problems with
   which a ‘fragmented approach’ cannot cope.
6. Democracy requires cooperative participation and action in the affairs of the community, and people must learn the skills to make things possible.
7. Communities of people need help in organizing to deal with
   their needs, just as many individuals require help in coping with
   their individual problems.

Question 8

Methods of Community organizing (3)

Answer 8

1. Locality Planning
2. Social Planning
3. Social Action

Question 9

broad self-help method in which local citizens develop new skills and become more self-sufficient

Answer 9

Locality Planning

Question 10

Examples of Locality Planning

Answer 10

■ Basket weaving; DA (cooking) ; baking etc….

Question 11

utilizes skilled volunteers in the community in a technical
process of problem solving

Answer 11

Social planning

Question 12

Examples of Social Planning

Answer 12

■ Ex. Doctors, nurses, medtechs & OTHER VOLUNTEER
professional

Question 13

technique that involves the redistribution of power and
resources to disadvantaged segments of the population

Answer 13

Social Action

Question 14

Example of Social Action

Answer 14

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■ Social concern ….ex. In cases of fire, calamit

Question 15

The Process of Organizing a
Community: (A-G)

Answer 15

A. Recognition of problem.
B. Gaining entry into the community.
C. Organizing the people.
D. Identifying the specific problem.
E. Determining the priorities and setting goals.
F. Arriving at a solution and selecting intervention activities.
G. Do the final steps in the process.

Question 16

Final steps in the process: (1-4)

Answer 16

1. Implementation of the intervention activities.
2. Evaluation of results to reveal the degree of success.
3. Maintaining or sustaining the intervention long
   enough to ensure success.
4. Looping back to an earlier stage of the plan, if
   necessary.

Question 17

Started in the 1979 Surgeon General’s Report on Health Promotion, and Disease Prevention

Answer 17

Health promotion/disease prevention program planning

Question 18

When does Health promotion/disease prevention program
planning started

Answer 18

1979

Question 19

What happened in 1979?

Answer 19

in 1979 in Surgeon General’s Report on Health Promotion, and Disease Prevention. The Health promotion/disease prevention program planning has started

Question 20

What is the goal of Health Promotion and
Disease Prevention
Programming

Answer 20

Basic understanding of program planning must be
disseminate

Question 21

Basic understanding of program
planning involves the understanding
that: (1-4)

Answer 21

1. Health Education
2. Health promotion/disease prevention
3. Program Planning
4. Community organization

Question 22

is the “the continuum of learning which enables people, to voluntarily make decisions, modify behaviors, and change social conditions in ways that are health enhancing

Answer 22

Health Education

Question 23

is “the aggregate (bits & pieces) of all purposeful activities
designed to improve personal and public health through a
combination of strategies

Answer 23

Health promotion/disease prevention

Question 24

What are the examples of Health promotion/disease prevention?

Answer 24

EX…implementation of behavioral change strategies,
health education, health protection measures, risk factor
detection, health enhancement, and health maintenan

Question 25

a process in which an intervention is planned to help meet the needs of a specific group of people

Answer 25

Program Planning

Question 26

is "intervention whereby individuals, groups, and organizations engage in planned action to influence social problem

Answer 26

Community Organization

Question 27

It is concerned with the enrichment, development, and/or change of social status of the community

Answer 27

Community Organization

Question 28

Creating a program: Steps 1-5

Answer 28

1. Assessing the needs of the target population 2. 2. Setting goals and objectives 3. Developing an intervention 4. Implementing the intervention 5. Evaluating the results is comparing the program's outcome

Question 29

is the first task in creating a health promotion/disease prevention program.

Answer 29

Assessing the needs of the target population

Question 30

Steps in Assessing the needs of the target population

Answer 30

a. Step 1 is gathering data. b. Step 2 is analyzing the data collected. c. Step 3 is prioritizing the identified needs. d. Step 4 is validating the need.

Question 31

lays the foundation for the program.

Answer 31

Setting goals and objectives

Question 32

is designing the activities that will help the target population meet their objectives

Answer 32

Developing an intervention

Question 33

is the actual putting into practice of the activities that made up the intervention

Answer 33

Implementing the intervention

Question 34

is comparing the program's outcome with some standard of acceptability that was noted in the goals and objectives.

Answer 34

. Evaluating the results

Question 35

Evaluating the results is comparing the program's outcome with some standard of acceptability that was noted in the _____ and ______

Answer 35

goals and objectives.

Question 36

Step in evaluation(1-5)

Answer 36

a. Planning the evaluation b. Collecting the data c. Analyzing the data d. Reporting results e. Applying the results