Community Organization and Strategic Integration: Promoting Community Health

  • Keith Tones
  • Sylvia Tilford
  • Yvonne Keeley Robinson
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Abstract

The purpose of this final chapter is to consider the evaluation implications of community organization. The whole of this book might be said to rest on the thesis that maximal success (however defined) will be achieved by strategic planning which is (i) based on the principles of sound learning theory, and (ii) seeks to combine in synergistic fashion the full range of delivery possibilities. The most important of these have received attention in previous chapters, viz. : schools, the health care context, mass media, workplace and, now, the community itself. At one level of analysis we might say that community health education was the sum total of these delivery strategies. However certain approaches within the community and which are characterized by informality, lay involvement and more or less deliberate dissociation from official institutions and organizations merit separate consideration, They are variously labelled ‘community development’, ‘locality development’, ‘community organization’ and the like. We will, therefore, be identifying the particular characteristics of this ‘micro’ community education movement while arguing that its potential for empowering disadvantaged or resistant groups renders it of central importance to an effective ‘macro’ intervention in the community at large.

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Health Education Community Development Community Organization Heart Health Coronary Heart Disease Prevention 
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  • Sylvia Tilford
  • Yvonne Keeley Robinson

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