Week Two Flashcards
Community Assessment
What is Community Interest?
Group that benefits from the project
What is Community Concern?
Population of similar concern
What is Community Geography?
Population of a geographic area
What is Community Practice?
Areas to meet shared knowledge from one another
Community as a partner?
Identify strengths
Then
Address health concerns
Then
Develop community capacity
Community as client?
CHN provides prevention and early intervention to populations
What is Community Assessment?
Epidemiological data and disease occurrences
What are measures and data source for The Community Dimension: People?
Measures:
- Population
- Demographics
Data Source (3):
- Stats Canada, newspaper, social services
What are measures and data source for The Community Dimension: Place?
Measures:
- Geographic boundaries
Data Source (3):
- Maps, newspaper, census data
What are measures and data source for The Community Dimension: Function?
Measures (3):
- Production
- Consumption of goods
- Socialization
Data Sources (3):
- Prov/Terr Offices
- Business
- Religious organization
What are measures and data source for The Community Dimension: Status?
Measures (3):
- Viral Stats
- mortality
- Health risk profiles
Data Sources:
- Census Data
What are measures and data source for The Community Dimension: Structure?
Measures (2):
- Health Facilities
- Resource Personnel
Data Sources (3):
- Chamber of commerce
- Newspaper/Telephone
- Windshield survey
What are measures and data source for The Community Dimension: Process?
Measures:
- Commitment to community health
- awareness, conflict, accommodations, participation
Data Source:
- govt, history
- neighborhood
- windshield survey
What are the steps to Community Development Process (8)?
- Define Issue (articulate issue)
- Initiation process (research)
- Planning Conversation (invite stakeholders)
- Talking, Connecting (handouts for outlines)
- Create Asset Map (list as you initiate relationships)
- Mobilizing (bring together in central locations, share experiences)
- Take Action (Educate)
- Plan and Implement (Vision of change)
What is Primary Data Collection?
Windshield Survey (observational method)