Community health problems and solutions

To undertake activities aimed at maintaining and enhancing health, communities need certain basic capacities and resources to anticipate, prevent, and respond to health risks and to promote those community assets and protective factors that maintain and enhance the health of individuals, families, and populations.

Start with what you know about the problem (perception, opinion, inference).
Gather missing information on the problem. (perception, opinion, facts, inference).
Define the problem. (Using the “But Why?” technique Technique reveals multiple and alternate solutions to a community health problem.
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A community addresses its priority health issues in the second kind of CHIP cycle—an analysis and implementation cycle.

A problem is the difference between and what should be.
The cause of a community health problem may be inside or outside of that community.
Problems occur with different levels of severity.
Communities, like people, can work to reduce or eliminate their own health problems.
Analyzing health problems helps to arrive at effective solutions.

Providing knowledge of specific health issues and practices can have a dramatic effect on the health of a community

Safe sex practices, for instance, can cut down on the incidence of HIV infection, and information about the treatment of infant diarrhea can drastically reduce infant mortality

Start with what you know about the problem (perception, opinion, inference)

(Using the “But Why?” technique Technique reveals multiple and alternate solutions to a community health problem

A problem is the difference between and what should be

The cause of a community health problem may be inside or outside of that community

Problems occur with different levels of severity

Communities, like people, can work to reduce or eliminate their own health problems

Analyzing health problems helps to arrive at effective solutions