Getting To Outcomes® Operations Guide for U.S. Air Force Community Action Teams: Content Area Module for Air Force Sleep Health Promotion

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wendy Troxel ◽  
Stephanie Holliday ◽  
Regina Shih ◽  
Patricia Ebener
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
Air Force ◽  
Community Action ◽  
Content Area ◽  
Sleep Health ◽  
Getting To Outcomes

Getting to Outcomes® Operations Guide for U.S. Air Force Community Action Teams

10.7249/tl311 ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Chinman ◽  
Patricia Ebener ◽  
Amy Shearer ◽  
Joie Acosta ◽  
Sarah Hunter
Keyword(s):  
Air Force ◽  
Community Action ◽  
Getting To Outcomes

Utilizing an HIV community advisory board as an agent of community action and health promotion in a low-resource setting: a case-study from Nova Iguaçu, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

2019 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 56-64
Author(s):  
Jacob R. Milnor ◽  
Clarice Silva Santana ◽  
Alexander J. Martos ◽  
Jose Henrique Pilotto ◽  
Claudia Teresa Viera de Souza
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
Resource Sharing ◽  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Research Team ◽  
Community Action ◽  
Advisory Board ◽  
Hiv And Aids ◽  
Community Advisory Board ◽  
Low Resource ◽  
Intervention Point

Introduction: Brazil’s HIV burden has greatly increased over the past decade, especially for socially marginalized and vulnerable groups such as adolescents, women, and men who have sex with men. The reasoning for worsening HIV outcomes is complex, but ongoing economic and political crises have placed extreme operational and financial burdens on both the public health system and HIV-related civil society, affecting both treatment and prevention efforts and delivery. Context: Community-based HIV-related health-promotion activities have continued in Nova Iguaçu, Rio de Janeiro, despite these setbacks. These efforts have been led by a semi-independent community advisory board and engagement group based at the Hospital Geral de Nova Iguaçu with support from researchers based at the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation. Methods: The research team supported, documented, and participated in various activities led by the community advisory board and engagement group from 2017–2018 including meetings, community workshops/lectures, production of health promotion materials, and the dissemination of research findings. Results: The research team utilized the concepts of vernacular knowledge and critical pedagogy to describe and document the ongoing, bottom-up approach, community-led efforts of the community advisory board and engagement group. In particular, we describe the process of stakeholder engagement, popularization of research results, and resource sharing spearheaded by the community advisory board in Nova Iguaçu. Conclusion: The community advisory board demonstrates how community-led efforts are essential to HIV and AIDS response efforts in light of worsening HIV burdens and global shifts towards biomedicalization. Their HIV-related activities rely on existing community networks and resources with secondary support from a research team. This illustrates a key intervention point between traditional research and an empowering community mobilization that can inform similar efforts in other low-resource settings.

Victorian Health Policy Reform: Impact on Community-based Health Promotion

1997 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 7
Author(s):  
Sharon Parkinson
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
Health Policy ◽  
Community Health ◽  
Policy Reform ◽  
Health Centre ◽  
Community Action ◽  
Small Sample ◽  
Significant Shift ◽  
Community Based ◽  
The Impact

Since the Victorian Coalition Government was elected to office in 1992, community health policy has undergone considerable change as part of broader initiatives within the public sector. In the context of changing policy, concerns have been raised in the field of community health regarding the direction of community-based health promotion. The purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of policy reform on the conceptualisation, priority setting and practice of community-based health promotion. A series of interviews was conducted with a small sample of community health centre managers and staff within metropolitan Melbourne. Findings suggest that there has been a significant shift in the profile of community-based health promotion, with increasing emphasis on health promotion in clinical encounters and in groups, and less project work and community development. In terms of the principles of the Ottawa Charter, health promotion has moved away from the areas of community action and building healthy public policy as the centres focus increasingly on direct service provision. This study discusses the influences on and implications for the changing profile of community-based health promotion and considers directions for the future.

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