Week 3 Flashcards
What is a community
A group of people who live, learn, work, worship, in
an environment at a given time
Geographical boundaries
Landscape boundaries (lakes rivers) also political boundaries
5 community functions
1.) Space and infrastructure for housing, schools. Recreation, government,
and health and social services
2. Employment and income, including productivity, and distribution
through consumption of goods, trading, and economic growth
3. Security, protection, and law enforcement to protect the public from
crime
4. Participation, socialization, and networking for all community
members
5. Links with other community systems for growth and capacity building
Vertical communication
to link with larger
communities or higher decision making powers
Horizontal communication
enables collaboration between members, environments, and other systems
Diagonal communication
reinforces cohesiveness of
both horizontal and vertical communication lines
Formal leaders
are elected official politicians (mayors,
members of parliament, prime minister
Informal leaders
are people with prominent positions in
the community (religious leaders, executives, elders of
community groups, philanthropists, celebrities, or local
heroes)
How Do We Achieve Community Function
Communication
Leadership
Decision Making
Qualities of A Healthy Community Include
Clean, safe physical
environment
* Peace, equity, and social
justice
* Adequate access to
food, water, shelter,
income, safety, work,
and recreation for all
* Adequate access to
healthcare services
Learning and skill
development
* Strong, mutually
supportive relationships
* Workplaces that are
supportive of individual
+ family well-being
* Wide participation of
residents in decision
making
- Strong local culture
and spiritual heritage - Diverse and vital
economy - Protection of the
natural environment - Responsible use of
resources for longterm sustainability
Community-as-Partner Model
Community attribute is the assessment “wheel”
with components of assessment
⊹ At the core of the model, are community residents
⊹ Lines of resistance (or strengths) protect the
community from threats
Epidemiologic triangle
⊹ Host: who is affected - what community
⊹ Environment: where and when the condition occurred
⊹ Agent: why and how
Capacity building is a…
the process to strengthen the ability
of an individual, organization, community, or a health
system to implement health promotion initiatives and
sustain positive health over time
⊹ Allows the community members to take responsibility
of their own development
Community Asset Mapping Is used…
to outline the assets and capacity of the community,
identify strengths and potential resources for the program
planning and intervention
⊹ Includes skills and experiences of individuals/organizations,
services, physical and financial resources within the
community
The goal of the community health promotion model
to apply community health promotion strategies
to achieve collaborative community actions and to
improve sustainable health outcomes
Definition of communicable diseases
illnesses caused by a
specific infectious agent/its toxic products, that
arise through transmission of that agent, or its
products from an infected person, animal, or
inanimate source to a susceptible host
Alexander Fleming first discovered penicillin in
1928
First recordred pandemic
Bubonic plague killed an estimated 50 million in Europe during the middle ages
Spanish flu year and, death toll
1918 killed 21-50 million
when was smallpox eradicated?
after ravaging the world for thousands of years it was officially eradicated in 1980
in 1967 ___% of the worlds population was at risk of contracting smallpox
60
