Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
FCM3
Isabelita M. Samaniego MD
First Shifting
June 25 2008
Objectives
1. Define and explain terms
2. List and discuss the perspectives in approaching health care Perspectives in Approaching Health Care Delivery
delivery influencing a community health development 1. Health is a Social Phenomenon
3. Discuss how communities address their health concerns 2. All Sides of Reality must be Considered
4. Discuss community organization and health promotion 3. The Community should be Partners in Health, not Just
planning
Beneficiaries
Health
- A state of complete physical, mental, and social well being Factors Affecting Community Health
and not merely the absence of disease and infirmity.” - Physical: industrial development, community size,
World Health Organization - 1947 environment, geography
- Social/Cultural
- A dynamic state or condition which is multidimensional in o beliefs, traditions and prejudices
nature and results from the adaptation to his/her
o economy, politics, religion
environment.
o socioeconomic status
Community o social norms
- Group of people who have common characteristics; can be - Political
defined geographically or administratively o local and external decision making process
o policy-making policies (?)
Community Health - Individual Behaviour: takes the concerted effort of many, if
- The health status of a defined group of people and the not, most to make a community volunteer program work
actions and conditions, both private and public, to promote,
protect, and preserve their health. All Sides of Reality Must Be Considered
- Strengths: internal capacities, positive traits and values,
Population Health experiences, physical and human resources
- Weaknesses: internal to the community (problems, issues),
- The health status of people who are not organized and have acts as barriers
no identity as a group or locality and the actions and - Opponents: possibilities, generate strength, help realize
conditions to promote, protect and preserve their health health goals
- Threats: external conditions/situations affect health or effort
Public Health to improve health
- Health status of a defined group of people and governmental
actions and conditions to promote, protect, and preserve the
people’s health Community Should Be Partners in Health, not Just
Beneficiaries
Community Health vs Personal Health - Putting health in the hands of the people
- Personal - Encouraging comunities to assume responsibility for their
o Individual actions and decision making that affect health and become partners
the health of an individual or their immediate family - Paradigm shift for health professionals
- Community
o Activities aimed at protecting or improving the Actions that Help Community Address Health Problems:
health of a population or community - Community organizing
- Community mobilization
Development - Education and Training
- growth in one or more sectors of society plus associated - Establishing effective linkages for the future
changes in attitudes, social institutions and knowledge, - Mobilization of financial, technical or other resources
resulting in desired changes in people’s standard of living
Community Organizing
Community Health Development (CHD) - A process through which communities are helped to identify
- Process of putting in the hands of community members the common problems or goals, mobilize resources, and in other
power to make effective health decisions and to influence ways develop and implement strategies for reaching their
the management of available health resources so that they goals they have collectively set.”
can start to address their own health concerns
- Active players: community leaders, barangay health Community Mobilization
workers, community volunteer health workers,and people in - Helping the community to recognize that health is a
the community community concern, and not just the concern of the medical
profession or the government, and motivating community
- Formation of alliances
o Alliances with agencies to support certain causes
- Formation of a municipal or provincial body
o a special body with representatives from
communities, NGOs and government agencies, can
be nominated or established to have direct Student Activity
responsibility for tapping the concerns of local
communities •Community A : felt need is the high prevalence of hypertension
in their barangay: Describe how you will organize the community
System for Putting Health in the Hands of the People to develop a health project focusing on hypertension.
•Community B : High prevalence of PTB.
- Helping communities address their health problems where
these can be addressed •Community C : High Incidence of Dengue
o Facilitating a paradigm change on the part of the •Community D : High Prevalence of DM
health workers
o Community organization, diagnosis, training and
establishing linkages as part of CHD intervention
o Community-based health promotion