Positive relationship between citizens’ perception of community qualities, awareness of community issues, and their sense of community for promoting community health

2021 ◽  
Vol 38 (5) ◽  
pp. 57-70
Author(s):  
Min-Jung Kang ◽  
Myoung-Soon Lee
Keyword(s):  
Community Health ◽  
Sense Of Community ◽  
Positive Relationship ◽  
Community Issues

Wikibook Transformations and Disruptions

2010 ◽  
pp. 127-146 ◽  
Author(s):  
Curtis J. Bonk ◽  
Mimi Miyoung Lee ◽  
Nari Kim ◽  
Meng-Fen Grace Lin
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Design Process ◽  
Sense Of Community ◽  
Knowledge Construction ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Disruptive Technology ◽  
Academic Setting ◽  
New Form ◽  
Community Issues ◽  
The Web

A Wikibook is a transformative and disruptive technology that is finding increasing use in schools and higher education institutions. This new form of technology is inexpensive, accessible, and fairly responsive to the user. When engaged in a Wikibook project in an academic setting, learners are granted power to control the content and process of learning. Wikibooks are part of the Web 2.0 which can provide a powerful force in changing, and improving education. However, the authors’ multiple attempts to build Wikibooks in their own classes reveal that creating a successful Wikibook is not particularly easy. It is even more difficult when it entails more than one institution or class. Cross-institutional and internationally designed Wikibooks present many instructional challenges and dilemmas to learners and instructors. In addition, there are collaboration issues, technology issues, knowledge construction and sense of community issues, and general issues related to the Wikibook technology and the Wikibook design process itself. In response, in this chapter, the authors provide dozens of Wikibook collaboration ideas and suggestions based on our experiences.

scholarly journals Factors Related to Health Civic Engagement: Results from the 2018 National Survey of Health Attitudes to Understand Progress towards a Culture of Health

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tamara Dubowitz ◽  
Christopher Nelson ◽  
Sarah Weilant ◽  
Jennifer C. Sloan ◽  
Andy Bogart ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Civic Engagement ◽  
Community Health ◽  
National Survey ◽  
Sense Of Community ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The United States ◽  
Health Attitudes ◽  
Nationally Representative ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Health And Well Being

Abstract Background: Civic engagement, including voting, volunteering, and participating in civic organizations, is associated with better psychological, physical and behavioral health and well-being. In addition, civic engagement is increasingly viewed (e.g., in Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Culture of Health action framework) as a potentially important driver for raising awareness of and addressing unhealthy conditions in communities. As such, it is important to understand the factors that may promote civic engagement, with a particular focus on the less-understood, health civic engagement, or civic engagement in health-related and health-specific activities. Using data from a nationally representative sample of adults in the United States (U.S.), we examined whether the extent to which individuals feel they belong in their community (i.e., perceived sense of community) and the value they placed on investing in community health were associated with individuals’ health civic engagement.Methods: Using data collected on 7187 nationally representative respondents from the 2018 National Survey of Health Attitudes, we examined associations between sense of community, valued investment in community health, and perceived barriers to taking action to invest in community health, with health civic engagement. We constructed continuous scales for each of these constructs and employed multiple linear regressions adjusting for multiple covariates including U.S. region and city size of residence, educational attainment, family income, race/ethnicity, household size, employment status, and years living in the community.Results: Participants who endorsed (i.e., responded with mostly or completely) all 16 sense of community scale items endorsed an average of 22.8% (95%CI: 19.8 - 25.7%) more of the health civic engagement scale items compared with respondents who did not endorse any of the sense of community items. Those who endorsed (responded that it was an important or top priority) all items capturing valued investment in community health endorsed 14.0% (95%CI: 11.2 – 16.8%) more of the health civic engagement items than those who did not endorse any valued investment in community health items.Conclusions: Health civic engagement, including voting and volunteering to ultimately guide government decisions about health issues, may help improve conditions that influence health and well-being for all. Focusing on individuals’ sense of community and highlighting investments in community health may concurrently be associated with increased health civic engagement and improved community and population health.

scholarly journals Sense of community: Issues and considerations from a cross-cultural perspective

1999 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 205-218 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher C. Sonn ◽  
Brian J. Bishop ◽  
Neil M. Drew
Keyword(s):  
Sense Of Community ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Cultural Perspective ◽  
Community Issues

scholarly journals Factors Related to Health Civic Engagement: Results from the 2018 National Survey of Health Attitudes to Understand Progress towards a Culture of Health

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tamara Dubowitz ◽  
Christopher Nelson ◽  
Sarah Weilant ◽  
Jennifer C. Sloan ◽  
Andrew Bogart ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Civic Engagement ◽  
Community Health ◽  
National Survey ◽  
Sense Of Community ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The United States ◽  
Health Attitudes ◽  
Nationally Representative ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Health And Well Being

Abstract Objectives Civic engagement, including voting, volunteering, and participating in civic organizations, is associated with better psychological, physical and behavioral health and well-being. In addition, civic engagement is increasingly viewed (e.g., in Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Culture of Health framework) as an important driver for raising awareness of and addressing unhealthy conditions in communities. As such, it is important to understand the factors that may promote civic engagement, with a particular focus on the less-understood, health civic engagement, or civic engagement in health-related and health-specific activities. Using data from a nationally representative sample of adults in the United States, we examined whether the extent to which individuals feel they belong in their community (i.e., perceived sense of community) and the value they placed on investing in community health were associated with individuals’ health civic engagement.Methods Using data collected on 7187 nationally representative respondents from the 2018 National Survey of Health Attitudes, we examined associations between sense of community, valued investment in community health, and perceived barriers to taking action to invest in community health, with health civic engagement. We constructed scales for each of these constructs and employed multiple linear regressions adjusting for multiple covariates.Results Participants who endorsed (i.e., responded with mostly or completely) all 16 sense of community scale items endorsed an average of 22.8% (95%CI: 19.8 - 25.7%) more of the health civic engagement scale items compared with respondents who did not endorse any of the sense of community items. Those who endorsed (responded that it was an important or top priority) for all items capturing valued investment in community health endorsed 14.0% (95%CI: 11.2 – 16.8%) more of the health civic engagement items than those who did not endorse any valued investment in community health items.Conclusions Health civic engagement, including voting and volunteering to ultimately influence government decisions about health issues, may help improve conditions that influence health and well-being for all. Focusing on individuals’ sense of community and highlighting investments in community health may concurrently increase health civic engagement and improve community and population health.

Public Health and Community Organizing as Agents for Change in Health and Risk Messaging

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul W. Speer ◽  
Leah Marion Roberts
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Health Outcomes ◽  
Community Health ◽  
Social Determinants ◽  
Community Organizing ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
The Social ◽  
Agents Of Change ◽  
Community Issues

Agents of change serve as catalysts for stimulating social change, particularly at community and societal levels of analysis. We often think about the characteristics of individuals who act as change agents, such as their capacity to motivate others or their training skills. However, organizations and disciplinary fields can also serve as agents of change. There is an emerging awareness in the fields of public health and community organizing as to how these respective fields can collaborate to leverage their collective insights and skills to become effective agents of change for community health outcomes. Importantly, while public health is concerned with the social determinants that shape health inequities in all communities, community organizing is focused on community issues that residents confront as constraints or problems in their daily lives. There is an inchoate understanding within the fields of public health and community organizing that the social determinants addressed in public health are often the same issues identified and addressed by community organizing groups. Both disciplines work as agents of change through their traditional efforts; however, there is promise in the evolving collaborations between these two fields. Recognition that both fields are addressing the same community phenomena is an important step, but whether collaborations and shared practices become distributed and institutionalized is an open question. Public health possesses research and analytic sophistication capable of identifying different social determinants and the pathways through which such determinants contribute to poor community health outcomes. In contrast, community organizing supplies an understanding of social change that requires the exercise of power through the participation and active engagement by those most directly affected by local issues or social determinants. One tension in this emergent collaborative practice stems from the fact that, at times, these different disciplinary skill sets are at odds. Whereas public health has a deep value of data analysis and expertise, community organizing prioritizes the participation and self-determination of those impacted by community problems. Fundamentally, the tension here is between the value placed on expertise versus the value placed on public participation. Neither value is inherently superior to the other; understanding how these two values can complement one another to address social determinants that shape community health outcomes is critical for realizing the promise of these organizational agents of change.

A theoretical exploration of culture and community health: Implications for prevention, research, and problem gambling

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Borrell ◽  
Jacques Boulet
Keyword(s):  
Problem Gambling ◽  
Community Health ◽  
Sense Of Community ◽  
Social Connectedness ◽  
Frame Of Reference ◽  
Prevention Research ◽  
Prevention Focus ◽  
Social Construct ◽  
Health Implications ◽  
Policy Responses

While predominant models of prevention focus on the prevention of specific diseases and disorders and/or on the minimisation of harm arising from them, the authors argue for a (theoretical and practical) reinsertion, or a reconstruction, of subjectivity within a web of social connectedness-including a sense of culture (we propose an action-relevant frame of reference), a sense of health as a social construct, and a sense of community-the latter two arising from implications of the former. Specifically, there are said to be three theoretical and potential intervention areas, all with a focus on the reconstruction of subjectivity, that require much greater attention in the study of addiction, especially gambling, as well as in practical and policy responses to these issues.

scholarly journals Factors Related to Health Civic Engagement: Results from the 2018 National Survey of Health Attitudes to Understand Progress towards a Culture of Health

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tamara Dubowitz ◽  
Christopher Nelson ◽  
Sarah Weilant ◽  
Jennifer C. Sloan ◽  
Andy Bogart ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Civic Engagement ◽  
Community Health ◽  
National Survey ◽  
Sense Of Community ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The United States ◽  
Health Attitudes ◽  
Nationally Representative ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Health And Well Being

Abstract Background: Civic engagement, including voting, volunteering, and participating in civic organizations, is associated with better psychological, physical and behavioral health and well-being. In addition, civic engagement is increasingly viewed (e.g., in Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Culture of Health action framework) as a potentially important driver for raising awareness of and addressing unhealthy conditions in communities. As such, it is important to understand the factors that may promote civic engagement, with a particular focus on the less-understood, health civic engagement, or civic engagement in health-related and health-specific activities. Using data from a nationally representative sample of adults in the United States (U.S.), we examined whether the extent to which individuals feel they belong in their community (i.e., perceived sense of community) and the value they placed on investing in community health were associated with individuals’ health civic engagement.Methods: Using data collected on 7187 nationally representative respondents from the 2018 National Survey of Health Attitudes, we examined associations between sense of community, valued investment in community health, and perceived barriers to taking action to invest in community health, with health civic engagement. We constructed continuous scales for each of these constructs and employed multiple linear regressions adjusting for multiple covariates including U.S. region and city size of residence, educational attainment, family income, race/ethnicity, household size, employment status, and years living in the community.Results: Participants who endorsed (i.e., responded with mostly or completely) all 16 sense of community scale items endorsed an average of 22.8% (95%CI: 19.8 - 25.7%) more of the health civic engagement scale items compared with respondents who did not endorse any of the sense of community items. Those who endorsed (responded that it was an important or top priority) all items capturing valued investment in community health endorsed 14.0% (95%CI: 11.2 – 16.8%) more of the health civic engagement items than those who did not endorse any valued investment in community health items.Conclusions: Health civic engagement, including voting and volunteering to ultimately guide government decisions about health issues, may help improve conditions that influence health and well-being for all. Focusing on individuals’ sense of community and highlighting investments in community health may concurrently be associated with increased health civic engagement and improved community and population health.

scholarly journals Factors Related to Health Civic Engagement: Results from the 2018 National Survey of Health Attitudes to Understand Progress towards a Culture of Health

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tamara Dubowitz ◽  
Christopher Nelson ◽  
Sarah Weilant ◽  
Jennifer C. Sloan ◽  
Andy Bogart ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Civic Engagement ◽  
Community Health ◽  
National Survey ◽  
Sense Of Community ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The United States ◽  
City Size ◽  
Health Attitudes ◽  
Nationally Representative ◽  
Using Data

Abstract Objectives Civic engagement, including voting, volunteering, and participating in civic organizations, is associated with better psychological, physical and behavioral health and well-being. In addition, civic engagement is increasingly viewed as a potentially important driver for raising awareness of and addressing unhealthy conditions in communities. As such, it is important to understand the factors that may promote civic engagement, with a particular focus on the less-understood, health civic engagement, or civic engagement in health-related and health-specific activities. Using data from a nationally representative sample of adults in the United States (U.S.), we examined whether the extent to which individuals feel they belong in their community (i.e., perceived sense of community) and the value they placed on investing in community health were associated with individuals’ health civic engagement. Methods Using data collected on 7187 nationally representative respondents from the 2018 National Survey of Health Attitudes, we examined associations between sense of community, valued investment in community health, and perceived barriers to taking action to invest in community health, with health civic engagement. We constructed continuous scales for each of these constructs and employed multiple linear regressions adjusting for multiple covariates including U.S. region and city size of residence, educational attainment, family income, race/ethnicity, household size, employment status, and years living in the community. Results Participants who endorsed all 16 sense of community scale items endorsed an average of 22.8% (95%CI: 19.8 - 25.7%) more of the health civic engagement scale items compared with respondents who did not endorse any of the sense of community items. Those who endorsed (responded that it was an important or top priority) all items capturing valued investment in community health endorsed 14.0% (95%CI: 11.2 – 16.8%) more of the health civic engagement items than those who did not endorse any valued investment in community health items. Conclusions Health civic engagement, including voting and volunteering to ultimately guide government decisions about health issues, may help improve conditions that influence well-being for all. Focusing on individuals’ sense of community and highlighting investments in community health may concurrently be associated with increased health civic engagement and improved community health.

scholarly journals Factors Related to Health Civic Engagement: Results from the 2018 National Survey of Health Attitudes to Understand Progress towards a Culture of Health

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tamara Dubowitz ◽  
Christopher Nelson ◽  
Sarah Weilant ◽  
Jennifer C. Sloan ◽  
Andy Bogart ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Civic Engagement ◽  
Community Health ◽  
National Survey ◽  
Sense Of Community ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The United States ◽  
Health Attitudes ◽  
Nationally Representative ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Health And Well Being

Abstract Objectives: Civic engagement, including voting, volunteering, and participating in civic organizations, is associated with better psychological, physical and behavioral health and well-being. In addition, civic engagement is increasingly viewed (e.g., in Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Culture of Health action framework) as a potentially important driver for raising awareness of and addressing unhealthy conditions in communities. As such, it is important to understand the factors that may promote civic engagement, with a particular focus on the less-understood, health civic engagement, or civic engagement in health-related and health-specific activities. Using data from a nationally representative sample of adults in the United States (U.S.), we examined whether the extent to which individuals feel they belong in their community (i.e., perceived sense of community) and the value they placed on investing in community health were associated with individuals’ health civic engagement.Methods: Using data collected on 7187 nationally representative respondents from the 2018 National Survey of Health Attitudes, we examined associations between sense of community, valued investment in community health, and perceived barriers to taking action to invest in community health, with health civic engagement. We constructed continuous scales for each of these constructs and employed multiple linear regressions adjusting for multiple covariates including U.S. region and city size of residence, educational attainment, family income, race/ethnicity, household size, employment status, and years living in the community.Results: Participants who endorsed (i.e., responded with mostly or completely) all 16 sense of community scale items endorsed an average of 22.8% (95%CI: 19.8 - 25.7%) more of the health civic engagement scale items compared with respondents who did not endorse any of the sense of community items. Those who endorsed (responded that it was an important or top priority) all items capturing valued investment in community health endorsed 14.0% (95%CI: 11.2 – 16.8%) more of the health civic engagement items than those who did not endorse any valued investment in community health items.Conclusions: Health civic engagement, including voting and volunteering to ultimately guide government decisions about health issues, may help improve conditions that influence health and well-being for all. Focusing on individuals’ sense of community and highlighting investments in community health may concurrently be associated with increased health civic engagement and improved community and population health.Trial Registration: Not applicable

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