Community Health Promotion Checklist
Community Health Promotion Checklist
| QUESTIONS | YES | GUIDING PRINCIPLES/EVIDENCE |
| Is there a broad range of health promotion programs in the community? | A comprehensive analysis of evaluations conducted of community-based stroke prevention programs published since 1985, identified positive outcome changes for smoking, physical activity, diet, weight, blood pressure, cholesterol, and car-diovascular (CVD) risk. | |
| Are best practice prevention strategies being used within the community to address the determinants of health and root causes for stroke and other chronic diseases? | Best practices in health promotion are those sets of processes and activities that are consistent with health promotion values/goals/ethics, theories/beliefs, evidence, and understanding of the environment, and that are most likely to achieve health promotion goals in a given situation. | |
| Does the community have access to population based data to identify priorities for prevention? | Information about the health of the population provides guidelines for setting priorities for health promotion. | |
| Has there been broad community input into developing health priorities, strategies and reviewing outcomes? | To achieve lasting social change, prerequisites include: a critical mass of people who share a common vision/goal; and positive beliefs in the community's capacity to identify their issues and act strategically, appropriate leadership and intersectoral collaboration. | |
| Is there broad intersectoral collaboration occurring within the community to promote health? | Health is holistic and is determined by a number of socio-political and other factors. It is positive (it is not only the absence of disease, it is are source for everyday living), and multi-level (the health of individuals, organizations, communities, and society needs to be considered as the levels interact with each other). It works with other sectors to achieve its goals and objectives. | |
| Are multiple strategies being used to promote health within the community (e.g. education, social marketing, healthy public policy, community development etc.)? | No health promotion strategy works in isolation-each has strengths and weaknesses, and works most effectively in conjunction with other strategies either as an active component or as a support. | |
| Are there processes for community development and mobilization around significant health issues to create and promote supportive environments? | Health promotion seeks to create supportive environments by making multi-level changes (personal, family, organizational, community, physical environment, society-wide systems). Its basic values are health, social justice (equity, respect for diversity), power sharing, the environment, individual/community enrichment. |
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