COMMUNITY ORGANIZING - correct answer ✔✔Process through which communities are helped to
identify common problems or goals, mobilize resources, and develop and implement strategies for
reaching set goals
Community capacity - correct answer ✔✔The characteristics of a community that affect their ability to
identify, mobilize, address social health problems
Empowered community - correct answer ✔✔One in which individuals and organizations apply their skills
and resources in collective effort to meet their respective needs
Participation & Relevance - correct answer ✔✔Community organizing that starts where the people are
and engages community members
Social capacity - correct answer ✔✔Relationships and structures within a community that promote
cooperation for mutual benefit
Recognize the issue, gain entry into the community, organize the people, and assess the community -
correct answer ✔✔Steps of community organizing of building
Inital organizer - correct answer ✔✔that someone who recognizes that a problem exists in a community
and decides to do something about
Grass roots/organized from bottom up - correct answer ✔✔When the problem solving is citizen-initiated
Outside in/organized from top down - correct answer ✔✔When the problem solving is outsider-initiated
Executive people, leader selection, and coalition - correct answer ✔✔Parts
, 1) identify people who are impacted by the problem that they are trying to solve
(2) provide "perks" for or otherwise reward volunteers (3) keep volunteer time short
(4) match volunteer assignments with the abilities and expertise of the volunteers
(5) consider providing appropriate training to make sure volunteers are comfortable with their tasks -
correct answer ✔✔Considerations of member recruitment
Needs assessment - correct answer ✔✔is a process by which data is collected and analysed to identify
concerns or problems of a community and furthermore prioritize these problems so that strategies can
be created to tackle them
Community health needs assessment - correct answer ✔✔is a process that describes the health of the
local people, enables the identification of major risk factors and causes of ill-health, and enables
identification of the action needed to address major risk
Profiling, deciding on priorities, planning public health and health care programs, imlementing planned
activities, and program evaluation - correct answer ✔✔Steps of community health needs assessment
Physical and social environment, poverty, family genetics, and individual biology - correct answer
✔✔Factors that affect health
Biomedical definition of health - correct answer ✔✔dominant definition of health (Absence of Disease),
health and illness are explained in terms of the mechanical systems of the body, and any breakdown of
the body's function leads to an infirmity
Social definition of health - correct answer ✔✔health is more related to a holistic manner and uses
WHO's definition of health
Humanist definition of health - correct answer ✔✔health co-exist with disease if people have the
capacity to overcome the effects of disease by coping positively with their situations and health is seen
as a strength to overcome adversity
Normative need (Bradshaw's model of need) - correct answer ✔✔defined by experts
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