Emergence Model of social and human capital and its application to the Healthy Municipalities project in Northeast Brazil
Health promot. int
; 22(4): 292-298, Dec. 2007. tab
Article
in English
| CidSaúde - Healthy cities
| ID: cid-59685
Responsible library:
BR67.1
Localization: BR67.1
ABSTRACT
We developed the Emergence Model and introduced the concept of social and human capital into designing and evaluating the Healthy Cities/Municipalities project to ensure health promotion infrastructure. This model hypothesizes that through the interaction and utilization of the other forms of capital, namely financial, physical and natural, the emergence of collective action takes place in the community or municipal setting. Subsequently, collective action may influence health and quality of life determinants. Once health and quality of life improvements are achieved, the enhancement of the social, human and other capital may be brought about through positive feedback, and successive collective action is thereby facilitated. According to the model, practitioners and policy makers of the Healthy Cities/Municipalities project should primarily strengthen social and human capital. The model is currently applied to designing the Healthy Municipalities project implemented in rural areas of Northeast Brazil, where infrastructure and a supportive environment to facilitate collective action for control over health and health determinant have been considerably frail due to geographical, historical, social and cultural reasons. Various interventions have been conducted in the scope of the project to enhance social and human capital on three levels, namely the state, municipality and community. Through the capacity development of health promoters, obliging volunteers and so on, the project attempts to create the social mechanism that enables people to build healthy public policies through inter- and trans-sectoral collaboration as well as to address and resolve day-to-day issues using their potentialities. (AU)
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Collection:
Tematic databases
Database:
CidSaúde - Healthy cities
Main subject:
Models, Organizational
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Healthy City
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Health Promotion
Type of study:
Prognostic study
Aspects:
Patient-preference
Limits:
Humans
Country/Region as subject:
South America
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Brazil
Language:
English
Journal:
Health promot. int
Year:
2007
Document type:
Article
Institution/Affiliation country:
Bureau of International Cooperation, International Medical Center of Japan/Japan
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Center of Public Health and Social Development/Brazil
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Department of Social Health Science/Japan
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Planning and Research Agency/Brazil