Building Academic-Community Linkages for Health Promotion: A Case Study in Massachusetts

1996 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 262-269 ◽  
Author(s):  
David R. Buchanan
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Promotion ◽  
Community Organization ◽  
Academic Community ◽  
Change Strategies ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Client Population ◽  
The Social ◽  
Public Health Promotion

Using select practice variables from Rothman's typology of models of community organization, this case study of the Massachusetts Community-Based Public Health Consortium analyses potential sources of conflict in collaborations between academic institutions and community coalitions. Based on different socialization experiences and organizational expectations, the goals, assumptions, basic change strategies, salient practitioner roles, conceptions of the client population, and client roles of the respective organizations were found to differ between these two partners and to be a source of chronic, unproductive tensions in consortium deliberations. The article concludes with recommendations for facilitating the development of more mutually trustworthy academic-community linkages to achieve public health promotion goals. These recommendations include (1) developing a greater awareness of the respective kinds of assumptions academic and community partners are likely to bring into new partnerships and (2) developing a more highly integrated model of community-based public health that capitalizes on the strengths of both the social planning and locality development approaches.

Promoting Maternal Visions

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miranda R. Waggoner
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Promotion ◽  
Social Control ◽  
Disease Control ◽  
Care Model ◽  
Pregnancy Care ◽  
Stratified Reproduction ◽  
The Social ◽  
Control And Prevention ◽  
Public Health Promotion

This chapter examines how the pre-pregnancy care model has influenced public health promotion, illustrated through the “Show Your Love” campaign that was created by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in 2013. This chapter reveals how the campaign’s message drew on and promoted gendered and racialized tropes in its goal of promoting pre-maternal love for future babies and, in so doing, further stratified reproduction. Discussion in this chapter highlights the social control aspects of public health and how the power of this particular messaging potentially reframes practices of “intensive mothering” into an ethic of “anticipatory motherhood.”

scholarly journals Leveraging Arts for Justice, Equity, and Public Health: The Skywatchers Program and Its Implications for Community-Based Health Promotion Practice and Research

2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (1_suppl) ◽  
pp. 91S-100S
Author(s):  
Rabbi Nancy E. Epstein ◽  
Anne Bluethenthal ◽  
Deirdre Visser ◽  
Clara Pinsky ◽  
Meredith Minkler
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Promotion ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
Ecological Model ◽  
Community Based Participatory Research ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Community Based ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Health Promotion Practice

Arts have long addressed the conditions that cause ill health, such as poverty, social inequality, and structural racism, and have recently taken on increased significance for public health. This article illuminates the potential for cross-sector collaboration between community-based health promotion and community-engaged arts to address the social determinants of health and build neighborhood assets at multiple levels of the social-ecological model. It features Skywatchers, a collaborative community arts ensemble of artists and residents of the culturally rich but economically poor Tenderloin neighborhood in San Francisco, California, and its original values-based “relational, durational, conversational, and structural” methodology focused on process over product and leveraging arts for justice and equity. Now, 10 years into its work, Skywatchers offers lessons about building reciprocal relationships, cocreating artworks, and promoting arts-based advocacy to improve the conditions that foster poor health in the neighborhood. The article discusses implications for community-based health promotion practice that delineate commitments and challenges shared between the two fields, their distinct roles and tools, and the potential for more widespread partnerships. It concludes with implications for policy and advocacy and a vision for expanded community-based participatory research to better understand the impact of arts on community health and well-being.

The Experience in Organizing and Conducting the Analysis of Data on Nutrition of School-Aged Children in the Sverdlovsk Region within the Federal Public Health Promotion Project

2020 ◽  
pp. 10-17
Author(s):  
NA Moiseeva ◽  
IL Kholstinina ◽  
MF Knyazeva ◽  
TV Mazhaeva ◽  
OL Malykh ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Promotion ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Nutritional Value ◽  
School Meals ◽  
School Aged Children ◽  
Healthy Nutrition ◽  
Urban And Rural Areas ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Public Health Promotion

Introduction: Implementation of the Federal Public Health Promotion Project should raise awareness and develop skills of healthy nutrition in children, thus contributing to disease prevention. Our objective was to evaluate the results of pilot nutrition monitoring in school-aged children of the Sverdlovsk Region as part of the Federal Public Health Promotion Project and the National Demography Project. Results: We established that school meals were generally satisfactory: the rations complied with physiological needs of children in terms of their nutritional value, basic nutrients, energy, and distribution of calories by main meals. We noted differences in the cost and nutritional value of meals and the variety of dishes and foodstuffs used between urban and rural areas. As a rule, pupils have one or two school meals a day. Outside of school, their consumption of dairy products and fruit is limited. Conclusions: Our findings may promote the elaboration of municipal programs aimed, inter alia, at changing the amount of sugar and salt used in the manufacture of public catering products, the cost of dishes with a high content of sugar, saturated fats, and salt, and subsidies on healthy nutrition.

scholarly journals A Salutogenic Approach to Disaster Recovery: The Case of the Lac-Mégantic Rail Disaster

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (5) ◽  
pp. 1463
Author(s):  
Mélissa Généreux ◽  
Mathieu Roy ◽  
Tracey O’Sullivan ◽  
Danielle Maltais
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Promotion ◽  
Action Plan ◽  
Health Protection ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Community Recovery ◽  
Community Assets ◽  
Challenging Situation ◽  
Quantitative And Qualitative Methods

In July 2013, a train carrying crude oil derailed in Lac-Mégantic (Canada). This disaster provoked a major fire, 47 deaths, the destruction of 44 buildings, a massive evacuation, and an unparalleled oil spill. Since 2013, Public Health has undertaken several actions to address this challenging situation, using both quantitative and qualitative methods. Community-based surveys were conducted in Lac-Mégantic in 2014, 2015 and 2018. The first two surveys showed persistent and widespread health needs. Inspired by a salutogenic approach, Public Health has shifted its focus from health protection to health promotion. In 2016, a Day of Reflection was organized during which a map of community assets and an action plan for the community recovery were co-constructed with local stakeholders. The creation of an Outreach Team is an important outcome of this collective reflection. This team aims to enhance resilience and adaptive capacity. Several promising initiatives arose from the action plan—all of which greatly contributed to mobilize the community. Interestingly, the 2018 survey suggests that the situation is now evolving positively. This case study stresses the importance of recognizing community members as assets, rather than victims, and seeking a better balance between health protection and health promotion approaches.

Public Health and Social Justice: An Argument Against Stigma as a Tool of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erika Blacksher
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Promotion ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Fair Share ◽  
Health Measures ◽  
The Social ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Agents Of Change ◽  
Shared Humanity

This chapter argues against the use of stigma-inducing measures as tools of public health on grounds of social justice. The value of social justice in public health includes both a distributive demand for a fair share of health and the social determinants thereof and a recognitional demand to be treated as a peer in public life. The use of stigma-inducing measures violates the first demand by thwarting people’s access to important intra- and interpersonal, communal, and institutional resources that confer a health advantage; it violates the second by denying people’s shared humanity and ignoring complex non-dominant identities. The position taken in this chapter does not preclude public health measures that regulate and ban health-harming substances or try to move people toward healthier behaviors. It does require that public health partner with people to identify their communities’ health challenges and opportunities and to treat people as resourceful agents of change.

Critical studies of the politics of public health promotion

2018 ◽  
pp. 13-32
Author(s):  
Peter Triantafillou ◽  
Naja Vucina
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Promotion ◽  
Political Economy ◽  
Science Studies ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Critical Studies ◽  
Contemporary Politics ◽  
Analyse Power ◽  
Critical Social Science ◽  
Public Health Promotion

The chapter provides an overview of existing critical social science studies of health promotion and outlines the analytical framework used in the remainder of the book. First, we review and discuss the merits and the limitations of the most influential political science, political economy, and sociological analyses, seeking to critically address contemporary politics of health. Second, we account for the Foucauldian-inspired analytical framework used in the empirical analyses. This implies accounting for the ways in which we adopt key analytical principles and concepts from Foucault’s work in order to analyse power-knowledge relations and unquestioned norms in the contemporary politics of health.

Towards the future of health promotion.

2021 ◽  
pp. 186-231
Author(s):  
Ruth Cross ◽  
Louise Warwick-Booth ◽  
Sally Foster
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Social Capital ◽  
Health Promotion ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Criminal Justice ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Health Problems ◽  
Academic Community

Abstract This book chapter aims to: (i) explore the role of the epistemic and academic community of health promoters; (ii) suggest that there are new and emerging public health problems to take into account; (iii) reinforce the need to defend the radical intent of the Ottawa Charter and to develop further anti-oppressive practice; (iv) describe how the health promotion discourse is changing, and moving into new realms of wellbeing; (v) reinforce the importance of hearing lay voices and understanding 'healthworlds'; and (vi) present some ideas for moving forward the value base of health promotion. Fields of endeavour apart from health promotion also struggle with the goals of empowerment, equality, justice, and are also contemplating how to deal with challenges of the 21st century, such as complexity, globalization and social capital. These fields might include education, criminal justice, social work, sport, development, and so provide rich and relevant avenues for further reading.

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