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| Title |
Capacity Building in Health Promotion: For Whom?
And For What Purpose? |
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Capacity Building, Health Promotion, Capacity-Building
Indicators, Domains, |
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| Author |
Labonte, R. and Laverack, G |
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| Date of Publication |
2001 |
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| Abstract |
Capacity-building has been a topic in health
promotion literature for several years. Similar constructs that
preceded it include community development and community empowerment.
More recent constructs, notably social capital and social cohesion,
make roughly similar claims on the same social space. This space
essentially describes elements of peoples’ day to day relationships,
conditioned and constrained by economic and political practices,
that are important determinants of the quality of their lives,
and of communities’ healthy functioning. In this paper, we discuss
capacity-building as health promotion means (its instrumental
value to other goals) and end (constitutive of the type of human
development health promotion espouses). We describe three different
uses of the term capacity-building and distinguish community
capacity indicators from two other types pertinent to health
promotion program evaluation: population health indicators,
and program specific indicators. We review seven theoretical
and empirical models of community capacity, which provide a
total of nine separate capacity domains. A second article in
this series takes up issues of community capacity use and measurement
in health promotion planning and evaluation. |
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