Environment: Healthy Community Community A Healthy Community 10 Things For A Healthy Community To Do

HEALTHY COMMUNITY
A HEALTHY COMMUNITY 10 THINGS FOR A

COMMUNITY HEALTHY COMMUNITY TO DO:
 A social group determined by geographic
boundaries and /or common values and 1. Prompts it’s members to have a high degree of
interests. It’s members know and interact awareness that we are community.
with each other. 2. Uses it’s natural resources while taking steps to
 It functions within a particular social conserve them for future generation.
structure and exhibits and creates norms, 3. Openly recognizes the existence of sub-groups
values and social institutions. and welcomes their participation in community
affairs.
CHARACTERISTICS OF A COMMUNITY 4. Is prepared to meet crises.
1. Environment 5. Is a problem-solving community. It identifies,
 Physical, social-cultural education and analyzes and organizes to meet it’s own needs.
employment milieu 6. Has open channels of communication that
2. Population behavior or Lifestyle allows information to flow among all sub-
 Self responsibility, self-care competency groups of it’s citizens in all directions.
3. HUMAN BIOLOGY 7. Seek to make each of it’s system’s resources
 Genetic characteristics of population available to all members of the community.
4. SYSTEMS OF HEALTHCARE 8. Has legitimate and effective ways to settle
 Prevention dispute and meet needs that arise within
 Promotion the community.
 Cure 9. Encourages maximum citizen participation in
 Rehabilitation decision-making.
10. Promote high level wellness among all it’s
members.
CLASSIFICATION OF A COMMUNITY
 Urban COMPONENTS OF A COMMUNITY

 High density
1. THE CORE
 A socially heterogenous population
 Represents the people that make up the
 A complex structure
community.
 Non-agricultural occupations
 Included in the community CORE are:
 Something different from an area
a. Demographics of the population
characterized by complex interpersonal social
b. Values
relations
c. Beliefs
 Rural
d. History of the people
 Usually small
 Occupation of the people usually farming, 2. NINE (9) SUBSYSTEMS OF THE
fishing and food gathering COMMUNITY
 It is people by simple folk characterized by A. HOUSING
primary group relations;  What type of housing facilities are there in
 Well-knit and having degree of group feeling. the community?
 Suburban/Rurban  Are there enough housing facilities
 A community near a city or larger town; any available?
district just outside the boundary of a city or  Are there housing laws/regulations
town; governing the people?
 Outskirts  What are these?
 Distribution of educational facilities-
B. EDUCATION who utilizes these; what informal
 These include laws, regulations, facilities educational facilities and activities exist
activities affecting education. in the community.
 Ratio of health educators to learners.
C. FIRE AND SAFETY
 Fire protection facilities and fire
prevention activities-distribution of these
D. POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT

 Political structures present in the
community
 Decision-making process
 Pattern leadership observed etc.
E. HEALTH
 Health facilities and activities distribution
 Utilizationratio of providers to clientele
served
 Priorities in health program , developed.
F. COMMUNICATION
 Systems, types of communication existing
 Forms of communication-be it formal or
informal
G. ECONOMICS
 Occupation, types of economic activities,
income
H. RECREATION
 Recreational activities/facilities
 Types of consumers
 Appropriateness to consumers
I. RELIGION
 Beliefs of people can bind together.
ELEMENTS OF A HEALTHY COMMUNITY:
 People are partners in health care

 People work together to attain goals
 Physical environment promotes health,
safety, order and cleanliness
 Safe water and nutritious food
 Families provide members with basic
needs
 Available . affordable, accessible,
attainable and sustainable health care.

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HEALTHY COMMUNITY

A HEALTHY COMMUNITY 10 THINGS FOR A

 Urban COMPONENTS OF A COMMUNITY

D. POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT

ELEMENTS OF A HEALTHY COMMUNITY:

 People are partners in health care

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