17
views
0
recommends
+1 Recommend
0 collections
    0
    shares
      • Record: found
      • Abstract: found
      • Article: not found

      Building the capacity of Fijian communities to improve health outcomes.

      Pacific health dialog
      Community Health Planning, methods, Community Health Services, organization & administration, standards, Fiji, Health Plan Implementation, Health Promotion, Humans, Public Health, Residence Characteristics, Treatment Outcome

      Read this article at

      ScienceOpenPubMed
      Bookmark
          There is no author summary for this article yet. Authors can add summaries to their articles on ScienceOpen to make them more accessible to a non-specialist audience.

          Abstract

          The purpose of this paper is to describe the experiences of building capacity toward improved health outcomes in a rural Fijian community. The paper defines the concept of community capacity situating this within the context of health programming. The tension that exists between the two key forms of health programming, top-down and bottom-up, is also discussed in terms of its resolution through the approach of 'parallel-tracking'. A practical means of visually representing the concept of community capacity is given using the spider-web configuration. The paper will be of interest to the planners and evaluators of health programmes that aim to build and measure community capacity.

          Related collections

          Author and article information

          Comments

          Comment on this article