Social Justice

System Inquiry and Community Healthcare Involvement

How would you proceed in developing a plan for building community involvement in health care in your community? How would you assess the situation? Who would you involve? Why?

The first step in developing a plan for community involvement in local healthcare is to create a forum for interaction of different representative members of the community. By employing the 'dialectical process' identified in the text by Finn & Jacobson (2003), it is possible to gather the far-ranging perspectives of a wide spectrum of possible participants before initiating any formal steps. According to Finn & Jacobson, the dialectical process "consists of members engaging the debate of ideas with members variably putting forth a thesis and antithesis and finally arriving at some form of synthesis. The process can help members explore contradictory forces and discourses that shape everyday life. And it can help members...
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