'El Carmel' community-orientation experience

Montaner, I; Fernandes, Sara; Badía, Marta; Martinez, Daniel; Aranda, Blanca; Ruiz, Francisco Javier Blázquez; Delgado, Jesshica; González, Felipe

doi:10.5334/ijic.2966

Cited by 1 publication

(2 citation statements)

References 0 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…From a methodological point of view, coinciding with other authors [ 13 , 21 ], we used qualitative methods for data collection, confirming the usefulness and efficacy of these methods to approach the community health diagnosis. A potential caveat of the ethnographic approach relates to the use of participant observation, which in this case meant that one of the authors (MJA) lived in the community; this may have introduced some bias in the interviews.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 75%

“…Looking at other countries, examples can be found in Latin America [18,19] and in Europe, including those associated with the Healthy Cities project that took place in Europe at the end of the 1980s/beginning of the 1990s [20]. These studies were focused mainly on identifying priorities for intervention that stemmed out of these diagnoses but had no follow-up or evidence regarding their actual implementation in the medium or long term [21,22]. Furthermore, in none of these instances was the gender perspective incorporated into the process.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

See 1 more Smart Citation

A Participatory Community Diagnosis of a Rural Community from the Perspective of Its Women, Leading to Proposals for Action

Alberdi-Erice

Martı́nez

Rayón-Valpuesta

2021

IJERPH

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

In primary health care, a community diagnosis is necessary to provide a detailed description of the community as well as an evaluation of the community’s health, including the main factors responsible for it and the needs felt by the population. This article presents a community health diagnosis following a participatory design, taking the perspective of women living in the community, to identify proposals for action. An ethnographic study was carried out in the community of Mañaria (Spain), using semi-structured interviews, in-depth interviews, key informants, participant observation, desk review, and photography. A sample of 21 women were interviewed until reaching saturation of the information. This information was complemented by that provided by five key informants. Data analysis included text analysis, coding, and categorization. Preliminary results were presented to the informants for validation and further refinement, and proposals for action were identified and followed up. Six categories were identified, representing different areas of intervention: population, jobs and economy, public and private spaces, lifestyles, processes of socialization, and health care assets. For each of these areas, the main problems were identified, as were the health care assets and proposals for action. The community diagnosis has been shown to be useful not only to identify health needs but also as an efficacious instrument to trigger social and public health actions that may be undertaken at the institutional level.

show abstract

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 75%