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Week 9 - Coggle Diagram
Week 9
- When seeking to address health issues within communities, problem areas of focus should be decided upon by community members, rather than external actors.
The experiences of community members should be classified as expertise, rather than leaving identification of issues to subject matter experts as deemed by colonial institutions of knowledge.
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Support from external stakeholders can enable community members to actively engage in the development of initiatives and projects that address needs in their community.
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- Health promotion can be aided and can work alongside efforts to increase community capacity/build and strengthen community networks and relationships.
In order for health promotion initiatives (both traditional and transformative) to be successful, a community must have the capacity to be able to uptake the information and resources given.
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Including community building principles into health promotion initiatives can continuously empower community members that take part
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- Transformative health promotion practice focuses on where communities start from, rather than expecting them to cross a gap to be able to participate.
One size fits all health promotion policies that do not integrate into the communities that they are delivered to will not reach the people they intend to reach
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In order for initiatives to be sustainable, they must take into account the resources available to a community
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- Health promotion centered around community development gauges success based around changed processes and expanded networks/relationships, rather than traditionally held metrics of success such as discrete outcomes and products.
Prioritization of long lasting change in paradigms and processes, over quantitative milestones.
Slow to change, hard to change back
A transformative application of evaluating health promotion- rather than focusing on controlling health, instead prioritizing building relationships and sustainable networks of connection
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- When working together with communities, external partners must engage in continuous reflexive and reflective practice- in order to adequately center the community of focus, and to meaningfully engage them in projects that affect them.
External partners must remember their positionality, and understand that the knowledge they provide to community members must not impose on the knowledge and work they have already done.
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Centering and uplifting community members over external stakeholders, and encouraging external stakeholders to listen to the community over asserting their interests.
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