Enhancing wellbeing in the rural community of Cambodia

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Enhancing wellbeing in the rural community of Cambodia

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Introduction
According to Dodge, Daly, Huyton & Sanders (2012), wellbeing is imperative to be developed in
a rural community as the health of the individuals in rural areas is continuously being affected
due to sparsity as well as rurality. The report aims to provide an overview about how wellbeing
is enhanced in the rural community of Cambodia. Similar to several other countries, Cambodia
deals with enormous strides to reduce the occurrence of multiple transferrable diseases.
The Indicators of Social Capital
The link of social capital to wellbeing is identified by policy makers as well as governments.
Policy makers have the probability to influence consequences in social policy such as education,
health, employment as well as family. Social capital is also viewed as possessing advantages for
the economy. The advantages are in terms of probability to reduce transactional costs as well as
persuade mutual trust and behavior Nyqvist, Forsman, Giuntoli & Cattan, 2013). As a result,
social capital has emerged as a field of huge interest to a large number of welfare communities.
Hence, most of the governmental bodies are aiming to embed social capital in the rural
community. The prospective for social capital leads to a positive contribution to consequences in
varied areas of social apprehension such as health, community protection and education. This
will also raise the initiative of the government to make sure that evidence-based models are
implemented competently (Helliwell, Huang & Wang, 2014).
Community Case Study
Cambodia is a rural community that has been focusing on the improvement of wellbeing.
Although the community has witnessed an improved public healthcare, these efforts have been
accompanied with those from private organizations. The aim has been to improve the healthcare
of Cambodian individuals (Gandure, Walker & Botha, 2013). However, the easily communicable
diseases have been still prevailing thus increasing the overall risk. As a result, a voluntary
program has been initiated that aimed towards good wellbeing. This has been carried out by
making the individuals learn about the methods to reduce the incidence of common health issues.
The program aimed to intend all the projects by collaborating with local companies in order to
make sure that are locally driven. The short, medium as well as long-term objectives are also

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aimed to produce sustainable outcomes for all the projects (Beban, 2012). The aim is to create in-
country capability by supporting local organizations in becoming profitable.
Raise Awareness
The wellbeing of the rural community raised awareness of sensitivity to cultural, spiritual and
behavioral differences. It helped to develop individual skill set as well as experience of the
individuals as public health workers. The wellbeing of communities belonging to
Kampong Cham has also being raised. The innovative cultural practices such as language, first
hand as well as dance have also been developed. This in turn reflected on the Ottawa Charter that
illustrated five major areas of health promotion. The areas includes creating health public policy
as well as supportive environments, reinforcing community action, increasing individual skills
and re-orienting health care services in order to prevent poor health and promotion of health
(Potvin & Jones, 2011). Increasing awareness will help to illustrate on the objective of health
equity that will make the individuals empowered to deal with the determinants that affect their
health. The individuals belonging to the community have been made sure to remain well-
practiced in enhancing meaningful as well as competent intercultural engagement (Brown,
2016).
Addressing Issues Holistically
The objective of the program has been to develop the general health as well as wellbeing of less
benefited rural community of Cambodia. The community addresses issues holistically as the aim
is to make the individuals educate about the methods that would prevent communicable diseases.
The projects are aligned with multiple United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. The
artifact objective of the community aims at developing the wellbeing (Coulthard, Johnson &
McGregor, 2011).
Cambodia Government
The Cambodia government has improved the housing challenge by launching multiple initiatives
such as National Housing Policy to resolve housing issues. This helped to eradicate the 2.5
million population increase challenge. The government reinforced the management of natural
resources that stroke a balance between conservation as well as development. Alternatively,