Community Capacity Analysis

This learning experience is an analysis of a local community's culture for its impact on health programs and problems (see Community Analysis: A quick and dirty approach & Action Oriented Community Diagnosis Procedure). The analysis must include the following:1.Define the Community – Provide a map of the community being assessed and describe the boundaries of the community. (10)2.Community Description - Provide a description of significant characteristics of each of the following community systems and identify possible key stakeholders: (10)?Communication – formal and informal?Language ?Family/social networks?Politics/Political systems?Economics ?Education?Religion?Social Structures and Institutions3.Determine Resources and Assess Needs (10)1.Identify community Assets and Accessibility (Draw on description in Part II.)?Individual Assets?Association Assets?Institution Assets 2.Health Data – Critical Health Indicators3.Identified Health Problems based on community assessment – Include how cultural and social values and beliefs relate to the health problems.4.Determine Community Health Priorities (10)1.Based on assessment analysis and health indicators 5.Recommendations to Address Community Health Priorities          

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