Community-based participatory research

The research topic has clear value to the discipline of Midwifery and more specifically to health professionals providing maternity care to Aboriginal Australian childbearing women. It is a national priority to address and solve health issues that contribute to closing the gap between Aboriginal childbearing women and their non-Aboriginal counterparts. The driving force behind the research article is the question “What issues Ngaanyatjarra women would like to see resolved in the area of antenatal

Community Health Workers (CHW) are the target groups to reach out to the community directly (CHW; Rural Assistance Center [RAC], 2015). The CHW represent the community to which they share the same ethnic, linguistic, and socioeconomic well-being (RAC, 2015). The strategic achievement of CHW is to facilitate the reduction of community cost on the health care system (RAC, 2015). They are capable of mediating, advocating, and lassoing the community directly to improve their

A growing trend amongst new artists is crowd funding. This refers to audiences making contributions and/or micro investments in new creative ventures (Jenkins, 2013). For example, websites such as Kickstarter, GoFundMe and Indiegogo are platforms for independent artists to solicit and collect funds. The funds from these campaigns are used to finance record production, launch tours, create merchandise and all other costs artists need assistance with. These websites are helping change the path of becoming

adults and may not be generalizable to other age populations. This article is a good source because it is found in a peer-reviewed journal that cited many different sources. This study is potentially very useful when considering setting up a community based-program because it recorded what participants wanted in a program and how their recommendations could be incorporated. Tailoring the programs will make them more worthwhile for participants to attend, allow the facility to sustain the program

conversation, face - to - face contact and things like talking on the phone. Marcia Clemmitt inserts in her article a statistic saying, “ As of July 2011, nearly 164 million Americans were using social media, according to the New York City-based media-research company Nielsen and by July 2012 the number had risen 5 percent, to about 172 million.” So imagine the amount of people and percent that, that has risen to in 2015. The article says that while they have

(Valaitis, 2012). Bramalea Community Health Centre (BCHC) is a non-profit organization located at 40 Finchgate Boulevard (Suite 224), Brampton Ontario. This organization is a community governed organization funded by the Local Health Integration Network (LHIN) and is a partner within the broader Health Care System (Bramalae Community Health Centre, 2016). BCHC is committed to providing inclusive, accessible, and sustainable programs and services to the members of Bramalae community who face the most significant

project in coastal areas of my home country, Bangladesh. I observed the importance of safe drinking water when the 2007 cyclone “SIDR” contaminated about seventy percent of water sources resulting an outbreak of waterborne diseases in affected communities. I saw the challenges of providing basic services to the victims which motivated me to pursue my career in this field. I am a Civil and Environmental Engineer by training with a MS in Water Resources Development (WRD). Currently pursuing my second

Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) begun when I was working with the Red Cross in a post disaster rehabilitation project in coastal areas of my home country, Bangladesh. The 2007 cyclone contaminated about 70% of the water sources in the affected communities resulting an outbreak of waterborne diseases. I observed the challenges of providing safe drinking water to the victims which motivated me to pursue my career in this field. By training I am a Civil and Environmental Engineer with a MS in Water

Council for the Voluntary Sector (GCVS) is the largest local development and support organisation for the Third and Charitable sector in Scotland. Our Manifesto for Change represents the collective views and experiences of voluntary organisations and community groups working in every conceivable field of Third Sector activity in Glasgow. It seeks to provide an honest account of what we and our members believe needs to change, and what we as a sector can offer to support the Local Authority in addressing

In “Dilemmas in a General Theory of Planning,” Rittel and Webber explain how they conceptualize contemporary social problems. Starting with a presentation of public protests against the professions’ understanding of and solution to social issues, the authors argue that the wicked nature of contemporary social problems and the growing pluralism of the contemporary publics account for this inability of social professions to plan for betterment. An underlying assumption to the authors’ argument is that