Contents
This report is based on the following requirement - - Write a 2,000-word paper that uses your professional judgement 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
- Laverack, G. (2007). Health Promotion Practice: building empowered communities. London. Open University Press. http://ezp.tua.edu.au/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&AuthType=ip,url,uid&db=nlebk&AN=234222&site=eds-live&scope=site
- Chapter 2, Communities and community-based interaction, pp. 17-29.
- http://eds.b.ebscohost.com.ezproxy.laureate.net.au/eds/ebookviewer/ebook/bmxlYmtfXzIzNDIyMl9fQU41?sid=eebf4084-f141-4fcf-b639-5e2e0adf8f4e@sessionmgr104&vid=0&lpid=lp_17&format=EB
- 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
- Liberato, S. C., Brimblecombe, J., Ritchie, J., Feruson, M. and Coveney, J. (2011). Measuring capacity building in communities: a review of the literature. BioMed Central, 11: 850, 1-10. Retrieved from http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2458/11/850/
- 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
Description
This assignment is done to understand the health issue regarding type2 diabetes which has taken a form of epidemic in present days. This project will descried the health promotional approaches and community bulling process that will help to control the disease. How does Laverack community building can help the health promotion program to control this disease will be discussed in this project.
