Lab Mod4 Flashcards
Community selection
Lack of basic healthcare
Economically depressed
Strategic
Concentration of a particularly oppressed sector
Accessible communication
Population of around 60-150 families
No open armed conflict
Presence of supportive leaders and credible groups
The process of communty organizing
G-gajning entry to the communtiy
R-recognizing the issue
A-assesing the community
O-organizing the people
-is a process by which data is collected and analysed to identify concerns or
problems of a community and furthermore prioritize these problems so that strategies
can be created to tackle them
NEEDS ASSESMENT
Steps on community healh needs assessment
- Profiling
- Deciding on priorities
- Planning public health and healthcare programs
- Implementing planned activities
- Evaluatiom of program
Factors that affect health
- Physical environment
- Social environment
- Poverty
- Familiy genetics and individual behavior
FIVE CRITERIA THAT
COMMUNITY ORGANIZERS NEED
TO CONSIDER WHEN SELECTING
A PRIORITY ISSUE OR PROBLEM
Must be winnable
Simple and specific
Unity among members of the organization
Affects the geneal public and build up community
Part of a larger plqn or strategy
- any combination of planned learning experiences
based on sound theories that provide individuals,
groups, and communities the opportunity to
acquire information and the skills to make quality
health decisions.
Health education
-any planned combination of educational,
political, environmental, regulatory, or
organizational mechanisms that support actions
and conditions of living conducive to the health
of individuals, groups, and communities.
Health promotion
-is a process in which an intervention is planned
to help meet the needs of a specific group of
people
Program planning
- is a future event toward which a
committed endeavor is directed
Goal
Steps taken in oursuit of the goal
Objectives
