approaches to community health assessment
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Approaches to Community Health Assessment
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What is a Community?
• Many definitions of community
• These may change according to specific circumstances
• Community as a specific geographic location
• Community as a social setting
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• Community as a social structure
• Community as sentiment/affiliation
• Community as shared risk
• Varied nature of communities requires flexibility when assessing them
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What do Communities Do?
• Production – distribution – consumption
• Socialization
• Social control
• Social participation
• Mutual support
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Why Assess Communities?
• Essential first step in the process of health planning:
• To identify the health status of a community
• To provide a baseline to evaluate planned and potential interventions
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• To identify factors that may be influencing health status– Both positive and negative
• To identify community resources
• To identify gaps and overlaps in existing resources
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• To identify key stakeholders in the community
• To solicit the opinions of community members
• To engage community members in thinking about the health of their community
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• To identify at-risk populations
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How Can Communities be Assessed?
• Both comprehensive and focussed assessment approaches can be used
• Nursing and non-nursing models exist
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Comprehensive Approaches - Nursing
Community as Client (Allender & Spradley, 2001)
Dimensions of the Community• Physical location
– Boundaries– Location of health services– Geographic features– Climate– Flora & fauna– Human-made environment
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• Social system– Health– Family– Economic– Education– Religious– Welfare– Political– Recreation– Legal– Communication
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• Population– Size– Density– Composition
• Population pyramid
– Rate of growth/decline– Social class & educational level– Mobility
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Community as Partner (Vollman, Anderson & McFarlane, 2004)
• Community Assessment Wheel
• Community core– History– Demographics– Vital statistics
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• 8 community subsystems– Physical environment– Education– Safety & transportation– Politics & government– Health & social services– Communication– Economics– Recreation
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• Other nursing models exist as well
• These range from the ridiculous to the sublime
• Often ineffective attempts to move nursing models developed to work at the individual level to the aggregate level
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• For example, model proposed by Kriegler & Harton
• Based on Gordon’s 11 functional health patterns– Health perception/health management– Nutritional metabolic– Elimination– Activity/exercise– Sleep/rest
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– Cognitive/perceptual– Self perception/self-concept– Role relationship– Sexuality/reproductive– Coping/stress/tolerance– Value/belief
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Comprehensive Approaches: Non-Nursing
Health Indicator Workbook: A Tool for Healthy Communities (BC Ministry of
Health, 1995)
• Six functions of a community (& a garden)
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• Production– Examples of indicators:
• Percentage of families with low incomes• Average family income• Employment rate• Diversity of employers
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• Consumption– Examples of indicators
• Cost of Agri-Food Canada Nutritious Food Basket• Cost of affordable housing• Affordable energy for home heating• Number of food banks• Percentage of population requiring food ade
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• Maintenance of physical environment
• Management
• Growth & development
• Support
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Manitoba Health (1997)
• Conceptual model based on Action Research
• Uses both ethnographic (interviews) and epidemiological data
• Iterative process where findings in 1 data set informs the research process in the other data set
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• Feedback sessions– Informants & community are consulted to
determine if information is accurate/complete
• Assumption of this approach– Data necessary to determine health status
and health needs of a community comes from a variety of sources
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• Deliberate effort to involve many community members; not just key informants
• Non-conventional sectors may be specifically approaches– Churches– Schools– Cultural groups– Social groups
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• Manitoba Health’s conceptual model integrates some of these ideas
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Winnipeg Regional Health Authority
• Conceptual model included in report
• Familiar components integrated into this model– Population health model– Action research
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Problem Oriented Assessments
• Begins with identification of a specific problem
• Seeks information about it
• Identifies who requires a solution for the problem
• Assesses the community’s capacity to respond
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Community Subsystem Assessment
• Focuses on one specific community subsystem
• How this subsystem is conceptualized influenced by how the whole community is defined and conceptualized– e.g.: Allender & Spradley– Vollman, Anderson & McFarlane
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Community Assets Assessment
• Concerns that traditional approaches focussed on weaknesses, problems, deficits
“As a result, we know much about programming for a community’s problems and little about programming for its possibilities.”
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• Impossible for a community to be helped or help itself if no strengths can be identified
• Forces a community to malign itself
“All you [researchers] ever do is focus on the negative things in our neighbourhood. When are you going to start seeing what’s right here?”
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• Leads to fragmentation– Of services– Of efforts– Of community
• Reinforces view that only external experts can solve the problems
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• Creates dependency on external funding
• Reinforces dependency
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• The beauty of looking for strengths/assets is that, by virtue of the way that the community has been assessed, the actors needed to move to the next stage – program planning and community development – are already identified and mobilized
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Community Assets Mapping
• Building communities from the inside out: A path toward finding and mobilizing a community’s assets. (Kretzmann & McKnight, 1993)
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5 steps in the assets mapping process
1. Mapping assets
2. Building relationships
3. Information sharing
4. Convening the community to develop a vision & plan
5. Leveraging outside resources to support locally driven development
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Community Quality of Life
• How to carry out a community quality of life project: A manual: A health promotion approach to understanding communities. (Raphael, Steinmetz & Renwick, 1998).
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Principles
1. Adheres to WHO concepts of health & health promotion
2. Emphasizes social determinants of health
3. Uses quality of life model
4. Respects community & its members
5. Sees the world through the eyes and words of community members