PLAN432 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Photovoice, Social Marketing, Health Equity
20 Mar 2016
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When members have meaningful opportunities to provide input on a project/process. Involvement in and outcome of process have benefits. Public meetings, focus groups, key informants (people or organizations) Talking, community mapping, photo-voice, neighbourhood assessments, walkability/food outlet assessment. Benefits for participants: improved heath for community members, increases social capital in community, greater likelihood of continued improvement. Benefits for proponents: community knows local historical context, collects community-based insider" data, new collaborations may form, community is more likely to be invested/supportive of outcome. Simcoe- muskoka health unit: 10 promising practices. Use table from last week, available online. Break the link between cause/risk factor and negative health outcome: remove cause bans, closures treatment, reduce exposure/coincidence safety, buffers, change individual/behaviour health, education, culture shift shift societal norms. Remove cause: vectors in water treat water to kill bacteria. Reduce exposure: polluted water removed handle so tainted water is inaccessible. Change behaviour encourage people to boil water prior to consuming. Cultural shift promote bottled drinking water.
