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Assessment : Essay - Working with Communities

To prepare for this assignment:

Analyze the different levels of community-based interaction in health programs; use Laverack's (2007, Chapter 2) ladder to help with your thinking on this complex subject.

Analyze the different theories and models of health promotion practice.

Critique the link between capacity building and empowerment. Write a 2,000-word paper that uses your professional judgment and the evidence provided in the Learning Resources in Modules 1 and 2 to address the following:

Part 1: Identify a preventable health concern in which you are interested, such as dengue fever or type 2 diabetes. Using LAVERACK'S LADDER of community-based interaction as a guide, describe three key strategies that you might use to engage with a community to implement a program to address this health concern (Module 1).

Part 2: Discuss how you could use the core domains of capacity-building identified by LIBERATO ET AL (2011) to support the journey to community empowerment and ownership of a prevention program for your chosen health concern (Module 1).

Part 3: Describe the models and approaches of health promotion (such as the health belief model or the education approach) that you would use to motivate and educate the community about your chosen health concern, and discuss the advantages and disadvantages of each model/approach

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