Racism & Health Promotion

  1. There is an important need to shift from a needs assessment to a community assessment focus; appreciating that communities have many strengths and assets.
  1. Capacity-oriented model: community mapping technique where community assets are acknowledged as the primary building blocks of the framework.

Expansion on community mapping and the utility of asset mapping in rural places includes 7 community capitals:

natural capital

air

built environment

soil

social capital

water

biodiversity of community

Issues should come from the members and potential members of a community. An issue should provide opportunities for leadership development and broad-based member participation.

  1. Health promotion practice must propose and implement policies that invest in racialized communities and are divested from White supremacist systems.

Health promotion knowledge and action projects cannot be neutral.

  1. Health promotion work should engage in a self-critiquing process and expand its practices. It should actively self-critique and examine its key conventions including the ways of working and the implications these have on societal understanding of race and racism.

Projects can uphold the current norms of pervasive and widespread racialized inequities

Projects can actively challenge racialized inequities.

Public policy-making and governance through which power and influence are wielded need to be transformed to tools that are used as opportunities to envision and produce racially equitable societies.

  1. Health equity and social justice efforts are centered in community-driven health promotion practice.

Applied Decolonial Framework for Health Promotion integrates decolonial processes into health practice.

Domain 1: Reflection

Domain 2: Planning

Domain 3: Action

mobilize community and build partnerships

mutual dialogue

critique current paradigms

Decenter the framework of reference to marginalized peoples

Assess the effects of colonization

honoring wisdom with accountability

engage in social justice practices

Center self-determination in all activities