Basic Principles of Copar

• Goal of COPAR: Community Health Development  or Social Transformation
• Minimum # of years to transform community: 5 years
• Community Diagnosis: analyze and solve community problems
• Community Diagnosis Types

  Comprehensive

  • Complete profile (e.g. demographic, socio-economic, cultural, etc.), done when it is first time in the community
• Community Diagnosis Types

  Problem-oriented

  • Specific need in community
• Instrument used in COPAR: Questionnaire
• Data collation stage of community diagnosis involving tallying
• Data presentation stage of community diagnosis involving chart or graphs
• Types of Chart

  Pie

  • Distribution of groups, few variables
• Types of Chart

  Bar

  • Distribution of groups, many variables
• Types of Chart

  Line

  • Distribution over time
• 5 Criteria in Prioritizing Community ProblemsTotal: 10 points

  • Nature of Problem - 1 point
  • Modifiability of Problem - 4 points
  • Preventive Potential - 1 point
  • Social Concern - 1 point
  • Magnitude of the Problem (% of Population affected) - 3 points
• Types of Community Problems

  Health Status

  • Morbidity and mortality
• Types of Community Problems

  Health Resources

  • Manpower, Money, Material
• Types of Community Problems

  Health-related

  • Socio-economic, Cultural, Environmental, Politics
• Principles (COPAR):

  1. People esp. the DOPES are open to change, the capacity to change, and are able to bring about change.
  2. Based on the interest of the poorest sectors of society.
  3. Lead to a self-reliant community and society.
• COPAR: DOPES

  D - depressed

  O - oppressed

  P - poor

  E - exploited

  S - struggling