NSE-31A Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Jamie Rose, Public Participation, Needs Assessment
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Community assessment: theoretical principles that guide community assessment. As a chn, you need to be exceptionally sensitive to the society around us and the privilege that each individual may or may have. Types of communities include: geopolitical, geographic or service related boundaries, aggregate, common interests, beliefs, culture, goals, etc, virtual, on-line common interests. Leadership: formal and informal, decision making, formal (policy, law, etc) Nb: theses are ideal but not all communities have those factors. Social, political, economic, historical (ontario healthy communities coalition, 2010 in stamler, yiu & dosani 2016) It is contextual, we must not make assumptions about communities based on our own experiences/ beliefs. Explain how your choices indicate a healthy community. The community has a weekly newspaper that. Community leaders make all the important encourages residents to submit letters to the editor, pictures and articles = public participation.