Instructions:
In this Assignment, you will explore the connection between helping groups and communities to gain empowerment through capacity building and community action. As a current or future public health practitioner, you will continually be called upon to identify the common needs and shared concerns of a community in the management of health programs.
Over the next two Modules you will complete a multi-part assignment.
To prepare for this assignment:
Analyse the different levels of community-based interaction in health programs; use Laverack’s (2007, Chapter 2) ladder to help with your thinking on this complex subject.
Analyse the different theories and models of health promotion practice.
Critique the link between capacity building and empowerment.
Write a paper that uses your professional judgement and the evidence provided in the Learning Resources in Modules 1 and 2 to address the following:
Part 1: Identify a preventable health concern in which you are interested, such as dengue fever or type 2 diabetes. Using Laverack’s ladder of community-based interaction as a guide, describe three key strategies that you might use to engage with a community to implement a program to address this health concern (Module 1).
Part 2: Discuss how you could use the core domains of capacity-building identified by Liberato et al (2011) to support the journey to community empowerment and ownership of a prevention program for your chosen health concern (Module 1).
Part 3: Describe the models and approaches of health promotion (such as the health belief model or the education approach) that you would use to motivate and educate the community about your chosen health concern, and discuss the advantages and disadvantages of each model/approach (Module 2).
