Health chap 13

• Social action


  ways in which individuals can engage with communities and/ or national or international organisations to take social action that promotes health and wellbeing
• features of an effective program

  • ownership
  • focused on results
  • partnerships
  • transparency and shared responsibility
• ways of taking social action

  • volunteer to raise funds
  • donate money to NGOs
  • organise a boycott
  • start a social enterprise activity
  • lobby governments by organising people to write letters and send emails
• Ownership

  • involving recipient countries in decision making, culturally appropriate, socially/ politically appropriate
  • meets the needs of the local community
  • implemented in sociocultural sensitive way
• Partnerships

  • participation of more than one organisation
  • resources are used effectivley
  • develops knowledge and skills of of local communities
• results focused

  • promoting self sufficiency, requires monitoring and evaluation
  • seeks to reduce poverty and inequality
  • focuses on women
  • addresses patterns of disease and illness
• transparency

  • all info is made available to involved parties
  • information is published and openly available
  • funding is used for its intended purpose