Health Sciences 2250A/B Lecture 5: Unit 4
26 Dec 2016
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Health promotion is the process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve their own health. Implementation of hp programs [chapters 9, 10, 11, 12] To have a community, the people in that community must have a sense of ownership/membership. We understand and are able to interpret. Walkerton water crisis = community involved to ensure that it will not happen again; you, no grad. Only they understand what it is like. Community that formed after 9/11 in new york. Community-based programs have large potential for population changes. Principles of participatory democracy & social justice. Participatory democracy: different than democracy; participatory democracy requires people in the community to actually play a part. Work to build widespread normative, economic, & political support for the intervention/change. C. o. often referred to as com. development, com. participation, grass-roots participation, etc. Term community organization comes from social work literature. Refers to numerous methods of intervening to deal with social problems.
