General HealthPhysical HealthMental HealthCommunity Healthblank tabblank

Community Health

Community Health

  • "Community Health" refers to the health status of a defined group of people, or community, and the actions and conditions that protect and improve the health of the community.

  • Factors affecting Community health are Individual behaviour, Physical, Social, Cultural factors and Community organization.

  • Community health can be enhanced by Health promotion, Health protection and Health services.

  • It is not an individual phenomenon. It can be well achieved only by the efforts of the entire community.

How to enhance Community Health?

The three strategies by which community health practice is carried out and is enhanced are health protection, health promotion, and the provision of health services and other resources.

Health protection

This includes the following activities:
1. Identification of environmental risks.
2. Prevention of unintentional injuries by recognizing hazards.
3. Ensuring availibility of clean consumables.
4. Proper disposal of wastes.
gototop

Health promotion

The tasks undertaken for health promotion include:
1. Educating the society, and starting bodies which influence change in behaviour.
2. Formation of policies and rules to better the public health.
3. Organizing recreational and other events to bring more awareness among individuals and uniting the community.
gototop

Health services

These include:
1. Creation of services and resources necessary for forming and executing public health strategies.
2. Communities, though educated and self-sufficient, are not autonomous and depend on external sources for health services.
3. Health services are either (quasi) governmental or non-governmental.
gototop

...previous

Citations

  1. Community Health, Encyclopedia of Public Health, Answers.com

  2. Green, L. W., and Kreuter, M. W. (1999).
    Health Promotion Planning: An Educational and Ecological Approach, 3rd edition. Mountain View, CA: Mayfield Publishing.

  3. Green, L. W., and Ottoson, J. M. (1999).
    Community and Population Health, 8th edition. Boston: WCB/McGraw-Hill.

  4. Kreuter, M. W.; Lezin, N. A.; Kreuter, M. W.; and Green, L. W. (1998).
    Community Health Promotion Ideas that Work: A Field-Book for Practitioners. Boston: Jones and Bartlett.

  5. McKenzie, J. F.; Pinger, R. R.; and Kotecki, J. E. (1999).
    An Introduction to Community Health, 3rd edition. Boston: Jones and Bartlett.

  6. McKenzie, J. F., and Smeltzer, J. L. (1997).
    Planning, Implementing, and Evaluating Health Promotion Programs: A Primer, 2nd edition. Boston: Allyn & Bacon.

    Image Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/60693455@N00/300653700/
 

Health Destinations

health destination We introduce you to some unique places around the globe where therapeutic treatments are practised from many decades and where people find solutions
to most of their health problems. Visit them and rejuvenate your body and mind.

Global health survey

survey icon Dedicated to news and reports collected by the team members concerning major health surveys across the globe, this section puts forth the current trends and results regarding serious health issues that need consideraton at the international level and awareness in the populace.
read more >>