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Re: Week 5 Question 4

by  Mansi Umeshkumar Sharma  - Friday, 2 December 2022, 7:44 AM

Community development is a profoundly strategic approach for improving First Nations people. This gives dynamic groups an opportunity to successfully express their ownership of their community. The social circumstances of the First Nations population are impacted by the erosion of social values, inequities, racism, and discrimination, which has a negative impact on their health. Therefore, if a health intervention programme is not carefully monitored in such areas, it may not be productive. The identification of community needs, adaptation to those needs, and modification of the policy to give an improved service option to the target respondents are all aided by ownership and supervision of decisions, which are essential elements in guaranteeing the successfulness of interventions in these communities (Kruk et al., 2018). It provides the opportunity for service providers to adapt to different cultural norms and ensure that cultural awareness influences workforce hiring, retraining, and performance (Javanparast et al., 2018). Thus, ownership and oversight of the decision-making process aids in achieving diverse goals in a wide range of healthcare settings with the essential, beneficial purpose of enhancing treatment availability for disadvantaged communities. References Kruk, M.E., Gage, A.D., Arsenault, C., Jordan, K., Leslie, H.H., Roder-DeWan, S., Adeyi, O., Barker, P., Daelmans, B., Doubova, S.V. and English, M., 2018. High-quality health systems in the Sustainable Development Goals era: time for a revolution. The Lancet global health, 6(11), pp.e1196-e1252. Javanparast, S., Windle, A., Freeman, T. and Baum, F., 2018. Community health worker programs to improve healthcare access and equity: are they only relevant to low-and middle-income countries?. International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 7(10), p.943.

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