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HU Credits:
2
Degree/Cycle:
2nd degree (Master)
Responsible Department:
Public Health
Semester:
2nd Semester
Teaching Languages:
Hebrew
Campus:
Ein Karem
Course/Module Coordinator:
Dr. Milka Donchin
Coordinator Office Hours:
flexible
Teaching Staff:
Dr. Milka Donchin
Course/Module description:
A mandatory course for year 2 students in the health promotion track and an elective course for others.
Course/Module aims:
- Provide basic knowledge and tools for working with communities – priciples and strategies.
- Provide information about models and approaches of community development for health promotion/
- Provide attitudes and values of equity, cultural sensitivity, partnerships and empowerment as a basis for health promotion activity.
Learning outcomes - On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:
1. Be aquainted with different approaches and models of community development for health promotion and be able to use them.
2. Be culturally sensitive and be able to work in interdisciplinary and inter-organizational partnerships and with stakeholders.
3. Read articles about development and evaluation of health promotion programs based on community development, advocacy or social change, in a critical away.
4. Analyze programs according to existing models.
Attendance requirements(%):
100
Teaching arrangement and method of instruction:
It includes lectures, discussions, meetings with community workers, exercises and a presentation of an article in class.
Course/Module Content:
- What is a community, social networks, social capital
- Examples of community development field work
- models of community organization
- community diagnosis, mapping community assets
- community participation, empowermwnt
- Community Based Participatory Reseach
- Community building
- Community resilience
- Coalitions – builsing and maintaining
- Ethical dilemas in community organization
Required Reading:
None
Additional Reading Material:
1. Community Organization & community building for health, Edited by Minkler M, Rutgers University Press, 2012.
2. עבודה קהילתית, שיטות לשינוי חברתי, אלישבע סדן, הוצאת הקיבוץ המאוחד, 2009
- Heaney CA, Israel BA: Social networks and social support, In: Glanz K et al (ed.) Health behavior and health education, theory, research and practice, Jossey-Bass, 2008, pp189-207.
- Chaskin R J: BUILDING COMMUNITY CAPACITY, A Definitional Framework and Case Studies from a Comprehensive Community Initiative. Urban Affairs Review 2001; 36; 291-323.
- Letcher AS, Perlow KM: Community-Based Participatory Research Shows How
- a Community Initiative Creates Networks to Improve Well-Being. Am J Prev Med 2009;37:S292–S299
- Maguire B and Cartwright S: Assessing a community’s capacity to manage change: A resilience approach to social assessment, 2008, Australia
- Van Vlaenderen H and Neves D: Community development: building on contradiction. Community Development Journal 2011; 46 S1: i83–i95
- Simmons A, Reynolds R.C, Boyd Swinburn B: Defining community capacity building: Is it possible? Preventive Medicine 2011; 52:193–199
- Shan H, Muhajarine N, Loptson K and Jeffery N. Building social capital as a pathway to success: community development practices of an early childhood intervention program in Canada. Health Promotion International 2012. doi:10.1093/heapro/das063
- Baker I.R, Dennison B.A, Boyer P.S et al: An asset-based community initiative to reduce television viewing in New York State. Preventive Medicine 44 (2007) 437–441.
- Agampodi T,C, Agampodi S.B, Glozier N, Siribaddana S: Measurement of social capital in relation to health in low and middle income countries (LMIC): A systematic review. Social Science & Medicine, 2015,128: 95-104.
- Rothman J: Multi Modes of Intervention at the Macro Level. Journal of Community Practice, 2008,15:11-40.
Course/Module evaluation:
End of year written/oral examination 65 %
Presentation 0 %
Participation in Tutorials 10 %
Project work 0 %
Assignments 25 %
Reports 0 %
Research project 0 %
Quizzes 0 %
Other 0 %
Additional information:
None
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