Week 3 - Important concepts Flashcards
What is the CCHNSOP second standard?
Prevention and health protection
Aim to reduce negative consequences from risk exposure.
harm reduction principles
Promotes participation with decision making about the health of the community.
Capacity building
The purpose of which is to determine family roles, communication, division of labour, decision making, power structure, boundaries, styles of problem solving, coping abilites and health promotion practices.
family health assessment
What is essential that a CHN have to complete a family health asssessment?
exceptional interviewing skills, sensitivity and flexibility
A family health assessment begins from who’s perspective?
The perspective of the family
In family health assessment, who is assessed first? NExt?
each individual member, then the whole family’s health
What are two models of family health assessment?
Friedman family assessment model
McGill model
What is the assumption of the Friedman family assessment model
Family is a social system with functional requirements
What are the family structure factors that are evaluated by the Friedman family assessment model?
Communication patterns, role structure, values, power structure
What is the focus of the McGill model?
How does it view family?
Focus on health rather than illness
Views family as a subsystem
What are the steps comprised in community health assessment?
Assessment, planning, intervention, evaluation
or assessment, analysis, planning, intervention, evaluation
Looking at resources that are already present
priority setting
What are the two entry ways necessary to gain entry?
Physical entry - gatekeeper
Psychological entry
Someone with formal and informal influence within the community
gatekeeper (physical entry)
Practice mutuality, establish trust, credibility and do research before entering the community to achieve this entry.
Psychological entry
What are different qualitative data sources?
Community surveys
Community forums
focus groups
a series of questions addressing the issues or populations being studied; provides a snapshot of a community and may be generalized to a larger population
community surveys
public meetings to discuss issues of concern with leaders or decision makers; inexpensive
community forums
: small group interviews with 8-12 people that usually last 1-2 hours; participants are more homogeneous/may be aggregates
focus groups
used when questions cannot be answered by secondary data sources; used in order to gain a more comprehensive view of a particular issue
Primary data sources
census, vital statistics, health indicators, treatment statistics, registries, reports are examples
Secondary data soruces
What source type does a CHN start with?
Secondary
diverse group of people/aggregates that reside within community boundaries
population
