Question

Working as a stakeholder in your small community, how can you control the determinants of health based on Nutbeams' definition of community action as a collective efforts which are directed towards increasing community control over determinants of health thereby improving health and give examples.

Answer 1

10years ago in 1998 nutbeam described the broad concept of health as a cognitive and social skills that determines the motivation and ability of individual to gain access regarding information that promote and maintain good health..it almost have a new concept in health promotion.. nutbeam in 2008 provide more attention to lack of systematic attention the concept of health literacy..

Community- based health promotion based on population,it's Activity involved towards planning, development, implementation and evaluation of programs and strategies..As a stakeholders set health promotion program to determinants of health, health promotion program that have a immediate reaction on people on social and physical settings..it improves their health knowledge, skills and motivation and changes to health action and behaviour..set a new organization, programs and services to promote health, health risk reduction and improvement to the physical environment to protect health and it's policies and changes in practice..

Nutbeam's definitions is a medical literacy..it can achieved through motivation, information and education..so that they can have better care of their health..for example through community action prevent obesity and promote nutrition, motivate individual to avoid alcohol and drug use..so it can be achieved in community based only through programs and settings to change their practices.. stakeholders responsibility using nutbeam's definitions focus on health education to improve critical health literacy, it help achieve changes through community settings in the social, economic and environmental determinants of health.. improve health and reduce inequities by empowering individual and community to make ethical, informed decision about their health..