Analysis of Community-Based Interactions in Health Programs

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Community Health and Disease
Prevention

Contents
Introduction.................................................................................................................................................3
Part1............................................................................................................................................................4
Part2............................................................................................................................................................6
Part3............................................................................................................................................................8
Conclusion.................................................................................................................................................10
Reference..................................................................................................................................................11

Introduction
The assignment is developed on the topic of community health and disease preservation which
includes the description of analyze of different levels of community based interactions in health
programs with the discussion of key strategies to engage with community to implement program
to address health concern. The analysis of different theories and models of health promotion
practice along with core domain of capacity building to support community empowerment and
ownership of prevention program for the health concern is also included in the assignment. The
assignment also includes a description of models and approaches of health promotion to motivate
and educate community about health concern and the discussion of advantage and disadvantage
of each module used in reference with health concern are also included in the assignment. Thus
overall the assignment concerns with linking community with health concern programs.

Part1.
Community refers to a place where people live but in boarder form community refers to a society
which shares a common goal or common interest. Community generally includes both social and
geographical characteristics such as heterogeneous individual with social relations in order to
form a group to achieve shared goals of the community. Moreover community-based interaction
states to community and the interaction ability of community members in social and
organizational terms. Community based interaction also include community based programs
related with awareness of diseases (Azam, et. al., 2019).
Dengue Fever is a mosquito borne infectious disease which emerge due to dengue virus and the
primary symptoms of this fever appears three to fifteen days after the mosquito bite and the
symptoms usually includes high fever, severe headache, joint pain, muscle pain, bone pain, rash,
low back pain and mild bleeding. The dengue fever usually takes two to seven days for recovery
and this mostly occurs to people with compromised immune system. The fever of dengue should
be prevented from spreading in community as this disease also causes death if suitable and
effective treatment is not provided to the infected person on time. Thus a vaccine for dengue
fever has been developed to prevent the virus to spread and programs also should be encouraged
to aware communities about the fever (Jin, et. al., 2018).
The ladder of community based interaction generally provides a framework of components
associated with community such as community readiness, participation, engagement,
organizations, development, capacity building, collective action and community empowerment
which helps to understand how and why people interact. This framework also represent
beneficial to successful and progress of community based programs related dengue fever. The
key strategies with the help of ladder community based interactions to engage with community to
the awareness program of dengue are as follows:
Using visual content: For increasing community engagement is essential that the people are
efficiently informed about the issue of dengue fever in the community along with the effect of
dengue fever on the health of community. Thus through using the strategy of visual content the

awareness programs of dengue fever would be able efficiently engage people with effective
communication with community. Moreover visual content helps to efficiently impact and
influence people and provide a clear description of dengue fever which would lead to the
awareness program successful.
Holding Meeting or workshops: Holding meeting or workshops associated with the discussion
of the issue of dengue fever along with its effects on health is an essential step in efficiently
engaging community through encouraging participation of community in the meeting and
workshops. Moreover meetings also help to seek community view towards dengue fever, to
reduce queries of community related with dengue fever and to state the methods and steps for the
prevention from dengue fever. During meetings the queries of community members also would
be effectively and quickly approached, answered and solved and this process further increases
the interest of community members (Guowei, et. al., 2018).
Promotion of Campaign: The strategy of promotion of awareness campaign and programs on
dengue fever is regarded as effective key to increase the engagement of community as promotion
increases the curiosity among community towards the campaign and would also provide clear
information related with the awareness program and the affect, symptoms and causes of dengue
fever on the health of community members. The promotion campaign also increases the
awareness of the program or campaign of dengue fever to all the members of community and
also increases the knowledge of community about the dengue fever.

Part2.
Capacity Building refers to the process which enables individuals and organizations to improve,
sustain the skills and perform at a greater capacity level in order to efficiently complete jobs. The
community capacity building includes the development of a set of attributes that enables
community to define, assess and act on the issues of dengue fever. The community capacity
building is beneficial in order to assess communities to approach social and health improvement.
Moreover capacity building in reference with the awareness of health concern and dengue fever
refers to the ability to deliver the aspect and issue of the dengue fever in an effective manner to
the community and it also helps in increasing community empowerment to prevent dengue and
hold awareness program (Pedro, M., & Odete, A. 2019).
Community Empowerment refers to the process by which community could gain control over
the decision and resources that further influence the individual health concerns. It usually builds
from individual to group then to wider organization for improve access to resources or decision
making. Effective empowerment plays an efficient role to deal with health awareness programs
related with dengue fever. It includes effective control on improving the health outcomes of
community with effective empowerment. Moreover community empowerment refers to positive
outcome of the dengue fever campaign and programs for awareness of community. This process
also helps to seek more control over the activities and resources of health related activities such
as dengue programs.
Open Communication among the communities and owners of prevention programs as this open
communication enables members of communities to openly talk about their doubts to the owners
directly. Open communication encourages and support the journey of community empowerment
through enhancing and strengthening the relation and communication between the communities
members and owners of programs. This also leads to aware community about dengue fever with
awareness programs by ownership (Hidayat, 2018).
Moreover nine domains were identified related with community capacity building such as
learning opportunities and skill developments, resource mobilization, partnership, leadership,

participatory decision making, assets based approach, sense of community, communication and
development pathway which plays an efficient role in developing powerful impact on the process
of empowerment of different communities. These domains also helps to develop vision and goals
of the events of dengue fever to clear everyone to efficiently manage and increase of
empowerment of community and also includes steps to prevent dengue.
Community empowerment and communication capacity includes better use of resources to reach
the target of population through increasing commitment for health concern and also increases the
community capacity to respond to emerging health issues related with dengue fever. Moreover
the requirement and needs of community are also considers with community empowerment and
communication capacity as it impacts the effectiveness of prevention of programs and inclusion
of effective strategies (Alaa, et. al., 2018).
Skills Development is also an essential element which should be consider in order to increase
the empowerment of community. The prevention programs of dengue fever also enhance and
develop the skill of members of communities through the knowledge of dengue fever. For
empowering communities the development skill plays an efficient role and also helps the
ownership of the program of dengue fever. Moreover the participatory decision making also
enhance and develop community empowerment and participatory decision making refers to the
process for increasing participation of the community members in decision making process.
Participatory decision making includes the engagement and participation of the members of the
community related with prevention program of dengue fever.
Monitoring Outcome is also an efficient and important component which is required to consider
in order to lead effective empowerment of communities. This process includes the tracking the
programs of dengue fever for observing the effectiveness of programs conducted by owners.
Moreover the outcomes of previous and current programs of dengue fever play an important role
in analyzing the health concern of community (Jung-Seok, et. al., 2017).
Thus all these components capacity building supports the journey of community empowerment
and ownership of prevention programs for the health concern related with dengue fever.

Part3.
Dengue prevention program is to educate people about the causes and impacts of dengue and it
requires knowledge from the dengue program and it also leads to prevention from disease as
well. The models of health promotions which help to motivate and educate the community about
health concern related with dengue fever are given below:
Health Belief Model refers to the social cognition model which focuses on understanding the
perceptions of individuals and the respond to reality and situations. The model considers to
predict health behaviors and utilizes the health promotion model in order to consider the health
of community. This model basically focuses to help people to understand the belief of people and
the major belief includes perceived benefits, seriousness, barriers and susceptibility. This model
works on decision making process (Devakumar, et. al., 2016)
Social Marketing Theory refers to the theory that focuses on promoting information related
with contents of health that are socially acceptable. This theory includes techniques which would
help to promote both social and behavioral benefits and this theory also includes active
promotion of dengue prevention programs among the communities.
Advantage of Health Belief Model Disadvantage of Health Belief Model
 This model leads the advantage of
easily motivating people or members of
communities.
 This model is stated as commonly used
model as it contain simple procedure
which results as useable model for most
programs of health.
 The major advantage of this model is
that it has the ability to predict the
behavior of health of individuals and
community.
 The disadvantage of this model is that it
is generally stated as an old model as it
has its root in old time.
 This model mostly state to the domain
of eating only in its approach to health.
 The prediction of this model related
with health behavior sometimes faces
differentiation.

Advantage of Social Marketing Theory Disadvantage of Social Marketing Theory
 The major advantage of this model is
that is leads to easily communicate with
people or members of community.
 This model leads to impactful outcome
of promotion.
 This model also state as effective for
health issues such as dengue fever.
 This model also consist leads to
disadvantage of complaints and
feedbacks from members of
community.
 It also leads to increase in the use of
personal resources which further results
as drawback of the theory.
 This theory leads to open scrutiny from
the community which is not acceptable
by the community.

Conclusion
This assignment includes the description of different level of community based interaction
program in related with health concern of dengue fever and the also includes the discussion of
ladder community based interaction framework which further includes the discussion of
community empowerment. The assignment includes the description of capacity building and
association with community empowerment. Lastly the models and approaches of health
promotion are also discussed in the assignment in relation with helping to educate and motivate
people towards health program.

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