Chapter 5 Abstract and Reflection

Abstract:

Chapter 5 mainly focused on the structure of a community and how a community can change. The chapter began with a summarizing of how a community is built and how they organize. It then goes into detail about the actual organization that takes place to help a community stay together. Chapter 5 looks at the issues that might arise when building a community and how to recover or prevent those particular problems. If a problem arises, there are certain steps that a community needs to take to solve it. There are numerous steps that need to be taken to help resolve the problem. The chapter then explains the process about organizing, assessing, and determining priorities and setting goals. The chapter used examples of programs such as, Healthy Cities/Healthy communities, PATCH (planned approach to community health), and MAPP (mobilizing for action through planning and partnerships) to assist in showing how a community should work. Each program is design to target certain aspects of a community. The chapter ends with looking further into goal setting and assessing the goals the community already has in place. It explained the intervention that must take place to help treat problems within the community.

Reflection:

Our group was very interested in the final couple pages of the chapter. We found it interesting to see all of the prevention techniques that a community has put in place in case of an incident. We all could relate to the chapter in some way or another because every community that we've come from has had to implement some sort of intervention.
We also found it really intriguing to see that every aspect of a community went under evaluation or assessment. First the community would plan, collect data, analyze, report, and then apply the results. Our group thought that this type of evaluation was sort of a necessity to any community. In a community your suppose to have the option of revising or editing so we liked that they addressed this aspect of the community in the chapter.