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Key considerations for community-centered health promotion - Coggle Diagram
Key considerations for community-centered health promotion
Practicing
reflexivity and reflection
when working by, with and for communities ensures that systems and institutions are continually being critiqued; revealing the power relations that are at the core or communities' health.
1.1 This allows health promotion practitioners to uncover gaps and areas of strength, which can make their practice all the more focused.
1.1.2 Journaling
1.1.3 Diagramming
1.1.1 Writing
To figure out how communities can become involved in health promotion work in the first place, practitioners must connect with them to gauge
community capacity
; supporting both parties in exploring how communities' strength can be leveraged to improve their health.
5.1 This opens the door for health promotion practitioners to engage with community leaders, whose social networks can be leverage to bring about meaningful and sustainable change.
5.1.2 Social capital
5.1.3 Access
5.1.4 Time
5.1.5 Resources
5.1.1 Power
Being that power relations can make or break community-based health promotion projects/initiatives, health promotion practitioners must center
empowerment
to restore power that has systematically been stripped from the communities they're working by, with and for.
4.1 This relates to building capacity in community members and honouring their lived experience/expertise so they themselves can identify gaps and strenghtsin the social conditions that shape their health.
4.1.3 Skill building
4.1.4 Control
4.1.2 Removing barriers
4.1.5 Negotiation
4.1.1. Mastery
For collaboration with community to be productive, health promotion practitioners must actively encourage
participation
; a mindset that fosters reciprocal learning between practitioners and community members.
3.1 When community members actively participate in health promotion, there's promising potential for transforming the social conditions that affect their health.
3.1.2 Reciprocity
3.1.3 Equity
3.1.1 Trust
3.1.4 Diversity
In the context of health promotion work by, with and for community, there needs to be meaningful
collaboration
between practitioners/clinicians and community members so that there's representation of diverse perspective and health concerns.
2.1 Inviting community into public health spaces like this is critical to making health promotion practices more accessible and attuned to the specific health needs of the community/communities in question.
2.1.2 Indigenous Elders
2.1.3 Researchers
2.1.1 Advisory boards
2.1.4 Clinicians