Lamarre Marie-Claude, Jackson Suzanne, Mittelmark Maurice B, Onya Hans, Leger Lawrence St, Contu Paolo
International Union for Health Promotion and Education, Paris, France.
Glob Health Promot. 2009 Mar;16(1):65-8. doi: 10.1177/1757975908100754.
This commentary follows up on a field visit made by the authors to a community development programme in Cairo supported by a local non-governmental organization called New Horizon Association for Social Development (NHASD). The people who comprise NHASD are dedicated to improving the conditions and quality of life of the most marginalized and underdeveloped communities. The paper describes the overall approach that community members, social workers and leaders use to tackle the underlying causes of poverty and the skills, resources and services they build using a rights-based and participatory community development approach. It also addresses ideas for IUHPE concrete action, which came from discussions stimulated by the visit, to support such community initiatives out of isolation. It ranges from complimentary membership of the NHASD to the organization of a specific health promotion network of extremely socio-economically vulnerable communities in urban areas worldwide, connected to the IUHPE Group on Settings-based Health Promotion, as well as sessions at the forthcoming IUHPE 20th World Conference on Health Promotion on the theme "Health, Equity and Sustainable Development".
本评论是基于作者对开罗一个社区发展项目的实地考察撰写的，该项目由当地一个名为新地平线社会发展协会（NHASD）的非政府组织支持。组成NHASD的人员致力于改善最边缘化和最不发达社区的状况和生活质量。本文描述了社区成员、社会工作者和领导者用以解决贫困根源的总体方法，以及他们采用基于权利和参与性的社区发展方法所建立的技能、资源和服务。它还探讨了IUHPE具体行动的想法，这些想法源自考察引发的讨论，旨在支持此类社区倡议，使其不再孤立无援。其范围涵盖从NHASD的免费会员资格到组织一个全球城市地区极端社会经济弱势群体的特定健康促进网络，该网络与IUHPE基于环境的健康促进小组建立联系，以及在即将召开的IUHPE第20届世界健康促进大会上举办以“健康、公平与可持续发展”为主题的会议。
