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BEST PRACTICES: COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

Topic Overview

According to the World Health Organization’s Health for All and the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion, health promotion is the process of enabling people to increase control over their health and to improve their health. To plan effective strategies, each community must go through its own process of assessing needs, setting priorities, formulating solutions, and owning programs.

There are a variety of models that help communities increase their capacity to plan, implement and evaluate comprehensive, community-based health promotion programs. Each approach includes:

• Mobilizing the community 

• Collecting and organizing data 

• Choosing health priorities 

• Developing comprehensive intervention plans 

• Evaluating program progress 

Background Documents

• PRECEDE-PROCEED Model 

• Planned Approach to Community Health (PATCH) - Model 
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 
• MAPP Model 
  National Association of County and City Health Officials 

Recommended Strategies

• Community Readiness and Mobilization  
  CSAP Western for the Application of Prevention Technologies 
• Building a Coalition 
  Tobacco Technical Assistance Consortium-TTAC 

Related Topics

• Positive Youth Development

Resources

• Proven and Promising Programs in building Strong and Self Sufficient Families - Current 
  Promising Practices Network
• Building Services and Systems to Support the Healthy Emotional Development of Young Children 2001 
  National Center for Children in Poverty
• The Community Guide to Preventive Services  
  Building Healthy Communities: Interventions to Promote Health - Enhancing Social Environments: Early Childhood Development and Family Housing - February 2002