Question

Explain the concept of empowerment with minority groups and community health problems. Why is this important?

Answer 1

Community empowerment is the process of increasing control over their lives..Communication important to ensure community empowerment..community empowerment to address the cultural,social,political and economical determinants on health for finding solutions..Few challenges developed for social inequality among minority population through strategy prevention approach to eliminate health disparities..Equal distribution of health is the main topic in health policy agendas..From different group of population many factors like lifestyle factors,social factors,socioeconomic factors make more disparate health outcomes..Race,gender,socioeconomic status make difference in health and its health risk..socioeconomic status result make more health disparities around the world..Adequate measures can tackle the health inequality..The fact that ethnic minorities experience mortality from health disease,diabetes,cancer,HIV, homicide,accidents..poverty making health variation and there is a risk among each individual with every age..Reducing health inequalities among individual group can reduce the risk and promote health outcome..
Life style changes can control the community health promotion among minority group..Effective prevention and knowledge based health promotion needed..most of the minority groups are uninsured..need substantial credibility gap from government sponsored need empowerment as a important component..marketing strategies involve in social marketing..health behavior change empower the prevention information and programs to target the minority population..consider cultural and socioeconomic variation in programs..community based training and education of health professionals can empower the behavior changes by provision of information..Destructive behavior pattern by poor urban population and minority like teenage pregnancy, HIV infection, drug use and interpersonal violence focus on power of cognitive information and individual responsibility..community Legitimacy achieves by gaining goal and content of the program..Health promotion/disease prevention among minority population focus on prevention activity,community wide services with communication,screening,physician contact focus on health promotion among minority group..
  prevention program includes fitness,prevention of unhealthy food habits,substance use prevention, smoking and alcohol prevention among minority population..Community wide HIV prevention information prevent disease among them..culturally sensitive approach and education can target the population..Early screening and prevention target genetic disease like sickle cell disease,diabetes,hypertension, need genetic screening and counselling for minority to improve health status..prevention of toxic hazards ,homicide and interpersonal violence need more attention on community legitimacy..Tobacco usage among minority makes serious health hazard..comprehensive solution needed to focus on empowerment..it is important to target the minority group for prevention of community health problem to reduce the mortality rate and improve their knowledge and awareness..