Health Promo Unit 4 Flashcards
What is a community?
Membership Common symbol systems Shared values and customs Mutual influence Shared needs Shared emotional connection
Community based programs are based on
Principles of participatory democracy and social justice
Community organization is often referred to as
Community development/participation
Grass-roots participation
Community organization definition
The process by which communities are helped to ID common problems, mobilize resources, and develop and implement strategies for reaching goals
Assumptions of those who work to organize communities
- Communities can develop capacity to deal with own problems
- People want to change and can
- People should play active roles in major changes that take place in their communities
- Self-imposed changes work better than other-imposed
- Holistic approach offered through varying interests
- Democracy requires cooperation of people
- Help is often needed
Process for C.O.
- Recognize the problem
- Can come from people within community (bottom-up/citizen initiated)
- Can come from people outside the community (top-down/outside in) - Gain entry into community
- Need buy in - Organize the people
- Gain support of the masses - Identify the specific health problems
- Determine priorities and set goals
- Arrive at sol’n and select intervention
- ,8.,9. Implement, evaluate, maintain
Resources Include
All people and things required to carry out program
Personnel (3 types)
Internal
External
Speaker’s bureaus (voluntary and symbiotic)
3 Ways to obtain Curriculum
Develop own
Canned materials
Combination
Marketing definition
The planned attempt to influence the characteristics of voluntary exchange transactions (exchanges of costs and benefits)
Social Marketing
The application of commercial marketing technologies to programs designed to influence the behaviours of a target pop’n
Social marketing focuses on
Non-tangible products such as ideas, attitudes, and lifestyle changes
Innovators
2% of the population
Want to be the first to try something new
Early adopters
14%, very interested in the program, a little more cautious
Often considered opinion leaders
Mass communication
Early majority
34%, interested but need a little push
Need external motivation
Late majority
34%, skeptical about program
Late adopters
16%, not interested in program
4 Ps of Marketing
Product
Price
Placement
Promotion
Implementation definition
Initiating the activity, providing assistance to it, problem solving issues, and reporting on progress
Phases of Program Implementation
- Adoption of the program
- Identifying and prioritizing the tasks
- Establish a system of management
- Putting plans into action
- Ending or sustaining the program