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Promote Individual and Family Action

  • Increase capacity for self- and collective care
  • Reinforce knowledge and skills
  • Counsel
  • Monitor progress
  • Screen and casefind

Provide Direct Care

  • Clinical services
  • Immunizations
  • Case management
  • Treatment

Influence the Environment

  • Advocate for policy development
  • Utilize social marketing
  • Develop support networks
  • Enforce legislation (Health Protection and Promotion Act)
  • Assess health risks
  • Raise awareness of health risks

Build Partnerships

  • Foster coalitions
  • Delegate leadership
  • Add health action to communit6y group agendas
  • Mobilize community action
  • Education community groups
  • Develop awareness in policy makers
  • Train the trainers

Edwards, N., Murphy, M., Moyer, A., and Wright, A. (1995). Building and sustaining collective health action: A framework for community health practitioners. Ottawa: Community Health Research Unit. (Pub. No. DP95-1)

 

 

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