Loue Sana
Case Western Reserve University, School of Medicine, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, 10900 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio 44106-4945, USA.
J Epidemiol Community Health. 2006 Jun;60(6):458-63. doi: 10.1136/jech.2004.023044.
Competing health needs of diverse populations and ever shrinking resources available to support these needs often serve as the impetus for the initiation of advocacy efforts to improve community health. However, perceptions of what constitutes a community differ, as do approaches to advocacy itself. This glossary addresses five key questions: (1) What is advocacy?; (2) What is meant by community?; (3) What are the different approaches to community health advocacy?; (4) How are priorities established in the face of competing health advocacy goals?; (5) How can community health advocacy efforts be evaluated?; and (6) What challenges may be encountered in advocating for community health? Each of these issues could serve as the basis for a text on that subject alone. Accordingly, this article is not meant to be comprehensive text on these issues but is, instead, intended to highlight key foundational issues. And, although advocacy efforts can be conducted by individuals, this article focuses specifically on advocacy efforts of communities, however they may be defined and characterised.
不同人群相互竞争的健康需求以及用于满足这些需求的资源不断缩减，这常常成为发起改善社区健康倡导工作的动力。然而，对于什么构成一个社区的认知各不相同，倡导工作本身的方法也是如此。本术语表涉及五个关键问题：（1）什么是倡导？；（2）社区是什么意思？；（3）社区健康倡导有哪些不同方法？；（4）面对相互竞争的健康倡导目标，如何确定优先事项？；（5）如何评估社区健康倡导工作？；以及（6）在倡导社区健康时可能会遇到哪些挑战？这些问题中的每一个都可以单独作为关于该主题的一篇文章的基础。因此，本文并非旨在成为关于这些问题的全面文本，而是旨在突出关键的基础问题。并且，尽管倡导工作可以由个人进行，但本文特别关注社区的倡导工作，无论它们如何被定义和描述。
