NURS405 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Almaty, Ottawa Charter For Health Promotion, Health Promotion
23 Apr 2015
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Process involving the community in maintaining, improving and protecting its own health and well being. Structure: assesses stats; leads to primary and secondary prevention, social planning development, assesses resources and services; leads to new resources to address problems. Look at who makes up the community (age, race, etc. ) and the resources and services: social planning. Process: involving the community to change itself. Need to work in the community identify community strengths, needs from their perspective and how willing they are to participate/change. Work from the inside out: usually leads to locality development = true community development. What is community development: an incremental process it takes time. Product: empowered community members with insight and resources to become equal partners to make the decisions and take action regarding their health: permanent change in health determinants. Remember: community development comes out of the alma ata primary health care.
