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Introduction to Community Development and Health (ICDH)
Programme Contents
By the end of the course, you will have discovered more about yourselves and your community. The depth of your understanding will depend on your starting point and the amount of time and work you invest in learning and reflecting on your experiences.
You will be working on 5 topics or Units:
Unit 1 - What is Health?
- Explore your own view of health and well being and how your view developed.
- Analyse why people have different definitions of health and well being.
- Describe how people’s health and well being is affected by individual, social and economic factors.
Unit 2 - Power and Powerlessness
- Explore personal power and powerlessness and how these vary in different contexts.
- Analyse power and powerlessness within and between communities and relate this to groups that are discriminated against.
- Explain how power operates within society as a whole.
Unit 3 - Recognising and Building on the Strengths of Communities
- Recognise the resources and opportunities to improve health and well being in your own community.
- Identify different approaches that are used when working within communities and the strengths and limitations of these approaches.
- Investigate the potential of collective action within and between communities.
Unit 4 - Achieving Change for Health
- Find out the aims, values and principles of Community Development and how this relates to Health Promotion.
- Discuss some of the ways in which Community Development might be used as a way of achieving change for health and well being in their community.
- Examine the social and economic factors contributing to health inequalities and their effect on health.
Unit 5 - Developing Skills for Working with Others
- Recognising your own skills in relation to working in the community and those of other members of the community.
- Demonstrate effective, practical skills in working with others in ways that are consistent with the values and principles of Community Development.
- Demonstrate the ability to communicate with and involve their community.
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