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The institutionalization of community interventions in Chile: Characteristics and contradictions
(KLUWER ACADEMIC/PLENUM PUBL, 2002)
A critical analysis of the consequences of successive institutionalization of community intervention in Chile is presented. This analysis is based on research of current community interventions in Chile, whose results are ...
Social capital and health promotion in Latin America
(REVISTA DE SAUDE PUBLICA, 2007)
Latin America faces common development and health problems and equity and overcoming poverty are crucial in the search for comprehensive and high impact solutions. The article analyzes the definition of social capital, its ...
Community eco-tourism in rural Peru: Resilience and adaptive capacities to the Covid-19 pandemic and climate change
(Universidad Continental, 2021)
The recent outbreak of COVID-19 has been devastating for international tourism, adversely affecting destinations, organizations, and local communities. In particular, the crisis highlights the need for local communities ...
Community Mobilization Around Social Dilemmas: Evidence from Lab Experiments in Rural Mali
(Social Sciences Research Network e-library, 2013-12)
Community mobilization is a key feature of community based development projects. Community mobilization requires facilitating communication between village members and between leaders and the rest of the community. Is ...
Social vaccines to resist and change unhealthy social and economic structures: A useful metaphor for health promotion
(2009-08)
The term ‘social vaccine’ is designed to encourage the biomedically orientated health sector to recognize the legitimacy of action on the distal social and economic determinants of health. It is proposed as a term to assist ...
Sharing Histories-a transformative learning/teaching method to empower community health workers to support health behavior change of mothers
(BioMed Central, 2017)
BACKGROUND: One of the keys to improving health globally is promoting mothers' adoption of healthy home practices for improved nutrition and illness prevention in the first 1000 days of life from conception. Customarily, ...
Community eco-tourism in rural Peru: Resilience and adaptive capacities to the Covid-19 pandemic and climate change
(ElsevierES, 2021-08-05)
RESUMEN
The recent outbreak of COVID-19 has been devastating for international tourism, adversely affecting destinations, organizations, and local communities. In particular, the crisis highlights the need for local ...
A community-based approach to integrating socio, cultural and environmental contexts in the development of a food database for indigenous and rural populations: The case of the batwa and bakiga in south-western Uganda
(MDPI, 2021)
Comprehensive food lists and databases are a critical input for programs aiming to alleviate undernutrition. However, standard methods for developing them may produce databases that are irrelevant for marginalised groups ...