Strengthening Community Action Flashcards

1
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_________ ___________ can be defined as a process of social change, which brings community members together, in an equitable fashion to work cooperatively to identify community strengths & needs and address common issues which affect health.

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Community Development

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Community Dev maybe (3P)

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Philosophy
Project
Process

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3
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As a ____________ CD entails a belief that people can identify and participate in solving their own problems.

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Philosophy

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4
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As a ____________ CD groups are supported to find their own power to effect change.

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Process

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5
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As a ___________ CD involves community representatives bringing about a specific change in their communities.

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Project

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6
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Beware of ___________ communities. It’s often about inequalities and differences in power.

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Romanticizing

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7
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Building community capacity means?

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C Members develop + difference in their capacity and skills because of desire to participate in activities that will help in some way.

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8
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Thus, we should build community from…

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The inside out!

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9
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External consultants have often viewed communities as entities with…

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Deficits - problems to be solved

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10
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Where to start in working to build community capacity? 6 SBBFSR

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Start where people are! Respect
Build on strengths instead of only assessing needs
Balance between ethical & pro standards
Foster participation
Sense of humor
Role of political analyses & activism recognized

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11
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Facilitative social & environmental conditions include?

TERF

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Trust & presence of C bons
Effective inclusive communication
Resilience & flexibility to deal with conflict/change

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12
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C Dev process? DII TCM TPE

Think start to finish

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Define issue
Initiate process
Invite participation
Talk, discover, connect
Create asset map
Mobilize community
Take action
Plan & Implement
Evaluate
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13
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CBR?

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Community Based Research

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14
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Seven principles for deliberate citizen engagement?

E FAGS DS

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Educate
Frame neutrally
Achieve diversity
Get buy-in from policymakers
Support deliberation
Demonstrate consensus
Sustain involvement
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15
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Public Participation is central to the…

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WHO 1986 definition of Health Promotion

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16
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T/F Past two decades has had decreased focus on involving public

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FALSE

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17
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Three lenses for viewing CD are distinct separate entities. T/F?

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FALSE - blur together. not distinct.

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18
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The three lenses? PHI

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Pop Health Promo
Health System Decision Making
Individual/Patient Client Care

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19
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Public participation is central to strengthening community action. Lens?

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Pop Health Promo

20
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Pop Health Promo lens addresses…

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Broad determinants of health and involving community in health has benefits for whole population

21
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A mechanism for incorporating public values and perspectives into health services/decision making. Lens?

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Health System Decision Making

22
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The emphasis of HSDM is on?

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Developing policies in public interest. Involves consultation process.

23
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Patient and family involvement in decisions about their own health and health care. Lens?

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Individual/Patient Client are

24
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Individual/Patient Client Care advocates for and enables..

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Individual & family members to have more control over their health & health care

25
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Benefits of using the three lenses? (4 - IIIH)

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Improved decision making
Increased public capacity to participate
Health related services more responsive to public needs
Improved individual and population health

26
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The Public participation spectrum? ICICE

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Inform
Consult
Involve
Collaborate
Empower
27
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The aforementioned represent (ICICE)

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The degree of public involvement

28
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T/F More involvement is always better.

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FALSE - not necessarily

29
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In the PPSpectrum, these 2 still remain key features.

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Power Relationships

Accountability

30
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Strategies for collaboration & partnerships?

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High levels of public participation
Need to engage public
Clear roles, decision making-authority/accountability

31
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An umbrella term often used to refer to strategies to build relationships to address social & health issues.

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Collaboration

32
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2 C’s often elements of collaboration?

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Coordination

Cooperation

33
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A _______ ____________ is formed as a result of a collaborative effort. The functions of this organization include regulation of relationships and activities, appreciation of emergent trends and issues, and infrastructure support.

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Referent Organization

34
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Occur when the purpose of collaboration is to advance a shared vision of a need and the expected outcome is to develop and implement a joint plan to address the issue and make outcome a reality.

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Partnerships

35
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Characteristics of partnerships? (4) SSDJ

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Shared authority
Shared liability
Detailed communication
Joint investments of resources

36
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Descriptive categories are placed within a broad structure of both explicit and assumed propositions . . . its propositions summarize and propose explanations for vast amount of data. It is not a theory, however, because propositions are not systematically derived in a deductive fashion

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Framework

37
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Symbolic representation of the concepts that make up a theory; may draw on a number of theories or empirical findings to further understanding of a problem in a specific context

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Models

38
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Partnership and collaborative models share a number of components including: EDPPC

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Extra Local Relations
Domain
Partner Characteristics
Partnership Characteristics
Communication & Ability to effectively communicate all previous categories
39
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Process Model of partnership development? Begins with..

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Awareness of Need

40
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Once need established, we need to identify 4 PEPP

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Potential actions
Extra-local relations
Partnership characteristics
Potential partners

41
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After identifying we need to: CIA

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Contact partners
Identify communication strategies
Agree on issues

42
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Once all agreed we must (2)

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Implement

Evaluate

43
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Guiding principles of partnerships? MESA

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Membership not assumed
Everyone brings something to table
Share risk, responsibility, reward
Agree on power distribution

44
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The partnership is designed to…

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Enhance capacity of individual partners and achieve common goal

45
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The structure of partnership is concrete or flexible?

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Flexible! Changing needs

46
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Something is achieved that could not have been achieved by any one individual, group, or organization working alone (Huxham & Vangen, 2005).

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Collaborative Advantage

47
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A situation that arises when the apparent rate of work output from a collaboration is slowed considerably compared to what a casual observer might expect to be able to achieve (Huxham, 1996, p. 4)

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Collaborative Inertia