Community Engagement Framework - Assignment

Running head: COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT STRATEGY
Community Engagement Strategy
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Introduction
As per the data of Australian government, it is observed that the smoking tobacco is
responsible for almost 90% of the lung cancer cases in the country. Therefore, smoking also
causes 20% of overall cancer burden in Australia every year. The report of Lung-
cancer.canceraustralia.gov.au (2020) stated that smoking not only causes lung cancer, but it is
also responsible 15 other types of cancer. Therefore, it is reported that an addiction to
smoking is quite prevalent in the age group of 14 years and lower children and so, the issue
of smoking among the young children is also responsible for causing 12.2 per cent of the
young population cancer in the country and it is validated by the data of Australian
Government. Furthermore, it stated that smoking 10 cigarettes per day enhances the rate of
mortality by two times and by the end of 2019, 90,817 cases of lung cancer affect the
Australian population (Cancer.org.au, 2020). So it is very important to quit smoking in order
to reduce the rate of lung cancer in the country. In order to prevent a specific disease, it i s
very important to take part for the community people in the disease prevention program and
as they are responsible for preventing disease by using the community based activity.
Therefore, such activities can be initiated by the government or the local authorities.
In this report, the burden of disease of lung cancer and its impact on the community
will we is discussed in the end along with this in the latter part of the essay, the various type
of health belief model was all is also discussed to reduce, to reduce to reduce the impact of
the disease on the population of the country.
Part 1 key strategies to engage a community of people and prevent smoking or lung
cancer
Participation in community interaction method states that in order to get the best
positive outcome it is very crucial to engage the community people in the health promotion

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program and thereby the community empowerment is also very important. As per the per
Laveracks ladder of participation, community empowerment is effective in achieving positive
result from the community engagement program. For ensuring the empowerment in the
community it is very essential to ensure a proper leadership styles during the health
promotion program. The success rate of a project progress is being related to the leadership
style of the individual. So, this Laveracks model of community engagement is very important
for the health promotion for reducing lung cancer and smoking cases in the society. So
participation in case of community based intervention for reducing the lung cancer is very
crucial for the society (Part et al., 2015).
Strategies for reducing lung cancer and smoking
In this community engagement strategy, the government and the local authorities can
easily use the Laveracks model of community engagement and as a part of this, the
government can inform the community people about the bad impact of the smoking and it
should also be informed that the they may have the problem of lung cancer as well due to the
problem of this smoking (Butler et al., 2017). For the second strategy, the government and
the local authorities can use the consultation strategy and as a part of this strategy, the
government can establish a hotline numbed for the people and from the hotline numbers, the
community people can have all type of information regarding the lung cancer and smoking
related problems (Jha & Peto, 2014). This hotline system can be considered as a supportive
system of the community engagement strategy as this hotline system can provide all type of
answers related the disease condition (Gielen, 2017). As per the third engagement strategy,
the government and local authorities can engage people in the prevention programs and
engagement of the community people in the health promotion program can improvement the
level of knowledge among them. In this regard, it can be stated that the local authorities and
government can conduct surveys and meetings. Therefore, it can be observed that during the

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surveys and meetings the government can take opinions and views of the people of the
society and it can cause incorporation of those views in the health promotion program for
reducing the burden of lung cancer and smoking (MacQueen et al., 2015).
Part 2: Capacity building for community empowerment and ownership of prevention
program
In order to improve the overall community health, it is very important to improve the
capacity of the community and it is important to assess the capacity construction procedure to
assist community activities in enlightening society and health. In the study of Liberato et al.,
(2011), it is stated that the capacity has been established by using numerous domains that are
evaluated through community-based collaboration strategies that are major events for
avoiding smoking and incidence of lung cancers among the Australians. The domains
identified by Liberto et al. (2011) were mainly identified by reviewing various other models
related to the capacity building process. In this context, it can be stated that in most of the
models reviewed by Liberto et al. (2011), skill developments and learning opportunities were
identified as key factors for building capacity among the community members. Therefore, it
is reported that the skill development programs are mainly achieved by organising teaching
programs related to the tobacco use and smoking behaviours of the people. Another domain
that is identified is resource mobilization and in this domain, prevention programs should be
attended by the community people and the influential members of the community will present
in the prevention program so that they can circulate those information among all the people
of the community. As they are the influential members of the community, hence it is easy
for them to reach a huge amount of people easily. Along with this, it should also be
mentioned that the partnership within a community organization can help to identify the most
vulnerable people in the community and thereby help them to access the health related