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The Health Keeper 's Model

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WEEK 4 INDIVIDUAL WORK ASSIGNMENT

The Health Keeper’s Model
Gloria Panhorst
Park University
HC466 Planning and Organizing Community Health Services
February 4, 2015

Introduction The Health Keepers Model is “based on more than twenty years of experience to explain a model that is capable of significant community penetration, involvement, and development” (Smith, Graham, & Guttmacher, 2005). This model is the method of service delivery that a New York community-based health organization, the Caribbean Women’s Health Association, Inc., used. This organization was established because the mainstream health care delivery system failed to provide the proper services for New York City’s large Caribbean immigrant …show more content…

Good health or poor health is influenced by a set of interrelated factors and requires a multipronged response.
2. When the community is involved in the participation in the design, implementation, and evaluation of programs and services, there is a greater ownership of the problem and participation in the solution.
3. Effective health care services are not focused on just the disease itself but on the whole person.

A Neighborhood-based Structure The following table, the Caribbean Women’s Health Association Model, consists of the environmental factors they had to deal with as well as the CWHA actions they took and the outcome.
Caribbean’s Women’s Health Association Model
Environmental Causes CWHA Action Outcomes
Majority working class and jobs did not offer health insurance so they often relied on cheaper and more readily available folk medicine Established neighborhood based structures to help new immigrants adjust to their new environment. Also looked at the underlying causes of diseases and perceptions of health care within the community Listening to the people and targeting the diseases that have been identified in this group of people as proven to help decrease these diseases although this is an ongoing process
Not adopting the beliefs and attitudes about health care as US citizens and so their concepts of health and illness are very different Involve the communities in identifying their health care needs and problems to access of health care. Providing

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