Community Participation in Health Promotion: A Practical Approach
Community Participation in Health Promotion
The promotion of health, understood as a process that aims to empower individuals and communities to act on the determinants of health, requires the involvement of people and organizations that will be affected by policies, programs, or activities that may arise. Participation is thus one of the fundamental principles, while working method to promote health. The concept of community participation has become fashionable since it emerged in the health strategies
Read MorePiaget’s Theory: Cognitive Development and Learning
Genetic-Cognitive Conception of Learning (Piaget)
Genetic Epistemology
Genetic epistemology is the discipline that studies the mechanisms and processes by which states of less knowledge transition to more advanced states of knowledge (Piaget, 1979).
Learning and Cognitive Development
The level of intellectual competence of a person at a particular moment in their development depends on the nature of their schemes, the number of them, and how they combine and coordinate with one another (Coll, 1985).
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Era of Social Revolution
The era of social revolution is a period that opens when the development of productive forces leads to conflict with the relations of production, which until then had facilitated its development. This period is characterized by the confrontation of the new productive forces with the legal system (property relations) that guarantees the hitherto dominant production relations. The new productive forces and the legal system are defended by different social classes. The class
Managerial Roles, Functions, and Organizational Structures
**Managerial Roles, Functions: An Integral Overview**
All managers must be able to think comprehensively, like general managers, in order to make optimal decisions for the company and not only defend their territories within the company. These functions or roles of the manager are placed in three integrated areas:
**Interpersonal**
- Ceremonial Figure: To ensure the representation of the company abroad.
- Motivational Leader: To direct subordinates.
- Liaison: To ensure the link between the public.
**Informational*
Read MoreUnderstanding Social Conflict and Political Power Dynamics
Understanding Social Conflict
- Inequalities arise because not all community members enjoy the same opportunities for access to basic resources that facilitate the maximum development of their abilities.
- Disparities exist in the enjoyment of skills and talents.
- Roles played in family and reproductive functions differ by gender, age, and kinship.
- Positions occupied in the social division of productive work vary, with some individuals performing trades or professions categorized as “manual” or “intellectual,
Historical Materialism: Marx’s Analysis of Class Struggle
**The Materialist Conception of History in Marx**
Critique of Hegel’s Idealism
The idealist conception of history, as presented by Hegel, held a dominant position in Germany during the early nineteenth century. Although it faced criticism from his followers, known as the “Young Left Hegelians” (including Bruno Bauer, Max Stirner, and Ludwig Feuerbach), they still shared with their teacher an emphasis on abstract ideas. Marx and Engels, in The German Ideology, criticized this neglect of “material”
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