Community diagnosis

Identification and quantification of health problems in a community as a whole in terms of mortality and
morbidity rates and ratios, and identification of their correlates for the purpose of defining those at risk
or those in need of health care.

Prticipation

A process by which a community morbilizes its resources, initiate and take responsibility for its own
development activities and share in decision for and implementation of all other development of its
health status.

Community

A cluster of people with at least one common characteristic (geography, occupation, race, ethnicity,
housing condition) or A group of people with a common characteristic or interest living together within a
larger society

Society

Any group of people who have lived and worked together long enough to get themselves organized and
to think of themselves as a social unit with well defined limits

Process

a usually fixed or ordered series of actions or events leading to a result

non-directive approach

nondirective approach an approach to psychotherapy and counseling in which the therapist or counselor
establishes an encouraging atmosphere and clarifies the client’s ideas rather than directing the process.
The client leads the way by expressing his or her own feelings, defining his or her own problems, and
interpreting his or her own behavior.

Paulo Freire and concretization

Conscientisation'', the development of critical consciousness through a process of reflection and action
is the central concept of Paulo Freire's educational theory of radical social change expressed in a literacy
training program.

Empowerment

A multidimensional social process that helps people gain control over their own

lives. It is a process that fosters power (that is, the capacity to implement actions or change) in people
for use in their

own lives, in their communities, and in their society through acting on issues that they defi ne as
important.

Facilitation
Advocacy

technique used by many health organizations to influence policy making decisions. — Advocating with
and on behalf of individuals and communities to improve their health and well - being and building their
capacity for

undertaking actions that can both improve health and strengthen community assets.

social mobilization

acts as a catalyst for organizing the members of a community to take group action by sharing their
problems and seeking their own solutions by pooling their own resources, obtaining external help and
participating actively in the decision-making processes that shape their lives as individuals and as
members of households and the local polity.