J Agric Med Community Health.  2017 Sep;42(3):155-167. 10.5393/JAMCH.2017.42.3.155.

Performances and Limitations of the Health Community Organization Project in 148 Village, Gangbuk-gu

• Hong JW
• Park WS
• Kim SA
• Kim NJ

• KMID: 2392724
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.5393/JAMCH.2017.42.3.155

Abstract

OBJECTIVES
The purpose of this study was to examine the performances and limitations of health community building project of 148 village in Gangbuk-gu, Seoul on community health organization perspective.
METHODS
We conducted a qualitative study using both a systematic review of this project and in-depth interviews with the operators who had worked for the project from January 2012 to December 2012.
RESULTS
In this project, activists worked by gathering the opinions of the residents and focusing on their growth. The residents themselves established a community health care plan. Based on social determinants of health, they continued projects to solve residents' needs. A variety of programs were activated by providing a health cafe, which was an alternative public participation health promotion space that was not a clinic or a public health center. As the various entities gathered, there were difficulties related to interests and role sharing, and there were limitations such as the fact that the performance and limit of the pilot project could not be clearly predicted beforehand.
CONCLUSIONS
This case suggested that new possibility of health and medical movement, approaching health issues by the way of community organization principle. Through the health community building project as community health organization perspective is expanded, health promotion effect will be created in the whole society.

Keyword

Health promotion; Residence Characteristics; Social capital; Social determinants of health

MeSH Terms

Community Health Services
Consumer Participation
Health Promotion
Pilot Projects
Public Health
Residence Characteristics
Seoul
Social Capital
Social Determinants of Health