Lecture 4 Community action: a transdisciplinary approach to health promotion Flashcards
What is health education?
Informing and influencing individual receivers about their health(behaviour)
What is community action?
It is a broader perspective of health promotion that focuses on community level.
It starts at the point of their everyday lives: what do they need from their perspective.
It’s in the setting of where they work, live, and play.
Focuses on change through action.
What is community action research?
Research based on the principles of community action.
It is about collective efforts directed towards community control over determinants.
It requires active participation of target population
Involves developing/implementing multiple interventions
Focuses on individual and community at the same time. .
Collaboration between sectors/disciplines.
Why is a community approach in research needed?
It can be used by highly complex health problems
To reach disadvantaged settings and groups that are hard to reach.
To strengthen the community/setting as a whole.
It’s applicable where traditional approaches don’t work.
What is the aim of community action research?
To meet complex health challenges of communities.
What is transdisciplinary research?
A form of learning and problem solving involving cooperation among different parts of society and academia in order to meet complex challenges of society.
It is interdisciplinary and action focused (target population is included).
What is framing?
Need to look at problem from perspective of various disciplines, each shedding light on different aspects of problem
What are the 5 phases of community action?
Phase 1: initiate & prepare Phase 2: In depth study Phase 3: exchange and integrate Phase 4: Prioritize and plan Phase 5: Project cycle
What actions are included in phase 1 of community action?
A project team and partnerships are established
There is approval by local authorities for the study
Ethical approval
Funding is approved
There will be done a context, stakeholder, and network analysis.
Raising interest among participants.
What action is included in phase 3 of community action?
Identifying options of interventions
What are actions included in phase 5 of community action?
Implementing the intervention for a trial basis. Monitor Evaluate Adaptation (Continuation Expansion)
What are communities and how can they be identified?
Groups of people who identify themselves by their group membership, sharing a common interest, common social institutions and common social control components. They are dynamic, and can be virtual. Self-identification into the community is important.
By way of geographical area or shared characteristics
What is a social network and what are its characteristics?
It’s a web of social interactions around a community member.
Characteristics are the nature of the relationship, reciprocity, intensity, complexity, size, homogeneity.
What are functions of a social network approach?
Strengthening existing relationships
Developing new network functions
Creating new social networks
It increases the ability for collective action.
What is intersectorial collaboration?
A recognized relationship between (parts of) different sectors of society, which has been formed to take action on an issue to achieve outcomes in a way which is more effective or sustainable than might be achieved by the health sector alone.
