COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT This essay will out line plans for a project based on Community Development (CD) principles to assess and address health inequalities within the Black African community. The chosen community to be involved with is the western part of Brockley (South East London) which consists three blocks of high rise flats within the estate. There are approximately 600 families living in this area. The reason for choosing this community is of poor accessibility to services and high number
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My Community Misty Eoriatti-Waymack ETH 125 03/14/2010 Five years ago I moved to a small town and it never crossed my mind about diversity. I am a white female and not a person who cares what race‚ sex‚ or social standing of the people in my community‚ but moving to a small town I just had not thought about ethnicity of my neighbors. When looking at my community from the outside it looks like just another little community. It was only when I started looking closely at the people around me that
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where. The majority of the members of my community do look like me. My community has been predominately white for many years. The total population for my neighborhood is 63‚000 people. Of that number 34‚500 are whites‚ 16‚400 are African-Americans‚ 11‚900 are Hispanic‚ 2‚700 are Asians and 7‚000 are other races. The only way that members of my community look the same as I do is that we are all creatures of God. When you talk about members of the community looking different from me then we get
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A written proposal outlining a project based on community development principles to assess and address health inequalities within a particular community. Health inequalities are likely to affect different population groups in a variety of ways. Certain groups of people and particular factors are linked to an increased risk of experiencing health problems. Commentators such as McKeown (1979) have made the case that medicine has a small impact as a determinant of health. Others have also argued
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When I first started my community IPPE experience‚ I expected to have a lot of patient interaction. However‚ I spent very little time doing things such as pulling prescriptions and answering questions. I am grateful for this because it allowed me to really focus on the tasks that I was assigned. In addition‚ because I was an extra worker for them‚ I found that everyone had a lot more time than usual to get work done and stop to explain things to me or answer questions. I had a lot of interactions
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Race and My Community 1 All of my experiences and opinions on cultural diversity are derived from living my entire life in Bourbonnais‚ Illinois which is a culturally diverse town with approximately 30‚000 residents. According to the U.S. Census Bureau my community is made up of about 50% Caucasian‚ 41% African-American 0.27% Native American‚ 0.32% Asian‚ 0.03% Pacific Islander‚ and 1.90% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latinos of any race makes up 9.25% of the population. (U.S. Census
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Eighteen years ago‚ I was born in Bangkok where my parents met and got married. At the age of two‚ I attended kindergarten‚ sooner than any other student due to my parents’ jobs. Then‚ I attended grade 1 to 6 at Santa Cruz Convent School and grade 7 to 9 at Satriwattaya School. When I was younger‚ my parents always took me to the park every weekend. We had a very good time‚ playing badminton‚ picnicking and singing together. Both of my parents liked traveling. When the holidays came‚ we usually
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the Community Community policing is explained as a collaboration of community and the police working together to help identify and solve criminal activities. Additionally‚ the whole concept behind it is to promote public safety and to enhance the quality of life within the neighborhoods in which we reside in. Community policing is composed of two major components which are community partnership and problem solving. Community policing is a program that was initially started in the 1940’s. All
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The Nutella spread‚ in its earliest form‚ was created in the 1940s by Mr. Pietro Ferrero‚ the founder of the Ferrero Company. At the time‚ there was very little chocolate because cocoa was in short supply due to World War II rationing. So Mr. Ferrero used hazelnuts‚ which are plentiful in the Piedmont region of Italy‚ to extend the chocolate supply. // In 1963‚ Ferrero launched the Nutella spread on the French market. In 1980‚ they expand the product in Europe but also in the rest of the world
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I have read most of the articles that was given to us‚ I am particularly interested in discussing one of the articles that was given to us for reading. That article is “The road to empowerment: Seven Questions Every leader should consider.” I would be discussing this article with reference to Chapters on Motivation and Empowerment from the textbook and also‚ with extra information that I have garnered from external sources. First‚ I would like to comment on the notion of mechanistic and organic
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