Public Health And Primary Care

Public Health and Primary Care
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ASSIGNMENT QUESTION:
Choose just one of the Township health profiles to use as the basis of your assignment from those listed.
1. Critically reflect upon the profile that you have selected and lay out the essential elements you would propose need to be included so that it is transformed from a “deficits” based profile to an “assets rich” description of the community. (30% of the assignment marks)
2. With reference to the community profile you selected, outline a simple plan for an asset based approach to working with the communities to improve their health and justify how your approach will increase the communities’ resilience, build social capital and build on/strengthen its existing community assets (40% of the assignment marks)
3. Provide a critical assessment of the key enabling factors and barriers that might affect your proposal/s (30% of the assignment marks).
LEARNING OUTCOMES TESTED BY THIS ASSESSMENT.
Have a critical understanding of the rationale underpinning working with communities, its contradictions, and the theoretical approaches to community involvement and community development,
Apply the learning by developing ways of involving people in the planning, process and evaluation of community based projects.
Explain and critically discuss asset based ways of working and the concept of coproduction of health.