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Community-Driven Health Impact Assessment and Asset-Based Community Development: An Innovate Path to Community Well-Being

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Handbook of Community Well-Being Research

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Achieving community well-being requires citizens to have an understanding of the interaction of the social determinants of health, inequities in health status and the ability to take action. They must be equipped with the critical analytical skills and tools necessary to make informed decisions about the policies, programs and actions that are required to improve the well-being of the community. In this chapter the authors make the case for the need of developing innovate approaches to building community well-being. One such innovate approach is the combining of three participatory, health promoting, community development processes; the People Assessing Their Health (PATH) process, the Community Health Impact Assessment (CHIA) process and the Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD) process. We will discuss the steps involved in these processes and provide a description of the first time PATH, CHIA and ABCD were combined and facilitated with two First Nations communities in Canada. Lessons learned from these experiences will be discussed and recommendations for further practice and research will be put forth.

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Notes

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    An example of a template designed by the Antigonish Town and County Community Health Board (ATCCHB) (2002) can be found at http://awrcsasa.ca/archive/pdfs/Antiognish%20CHIAT.pdf.

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    For more detailed description of the steps in the CHIA process, please refer to the facilitator’s guide section of the CHIAT, found at http://awrcsasa.ca/archive/pdfs/Antiognish%20CHIAT.pdf.

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Cameron, C., Wasacase, T. (2017). Community-Driven Health Impact Assessment and Asset-Based Community Development: An Innovate Path to Community Well-Being. In: Phillips, R., Wong, C. (eds) Handbook of Community Well-Being Research. International Handbooks of Quality-of-Life. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-0878-2_13

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