In chapter 5 they talk about two things that are needed to make community health successful. Those two things are the skills to organize a community and to plan a health promotion program.
Community organizing is a process through which communities are helped to identify common problems or goals, mobilize resources, and in other ways develop and implement strategies for reaching their goals that they have collectively set.
A point that was brought up throughout our discussion was that many hands make light work. Health organizations need to communicate with each other and work together in order to be successful. The more people who have the same goal and work with eachother to reach that goal, the more likely that goal will be accomplished.
The steps in the program planning process include assessing the needs of the priority population, setting appropriate goals and objectives, creating an intervention that considers the peculiarities of the setting, implementing the intervention, and evaluation the results.
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I agree with your group that many hands do make lighter work for everyone. When people have so much they need to do something always never gets accomplished. My group talked about Miller and how his number 1 criteria that communities needed to consider was haveing the issue be winnable.. I don't know what you guys might think about this but our group said if the issue is to easy that it might not get done but if it wasn't that easy it gave people the motive to overcome the odd and make it winnable.
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