Background: Healthy city is a city which places health of its citizens at the heart of its decision making process and continually creating and improving the physical and social environments and expanding the community resources by participation and c...
Background: Healthy city is a city which places health of its citizens at the heart of its decision making process and continually creating and improving the physical and social environments and expanding the community resources by participation and cooperation of various stakeholders. The numbers of cities which participating the initiative are continually increasing over the world. But there were just a few study on capacity of practitioners of Healthy cities initiatives about participation and coopertion with various stakeholders. This study was performed to assess the community capacity of Healthy cities practitioners and to identify affecting factors of the capacity.
Methods: The number of subjects were 35 public officers and NGOs practitioners which have participated in Busan metropolitan city Healthy cities project. The questionnaire was developed based on the tools of previous study on community capacity of Busan metropolitan city health promotion manpower and it based on Community capacity building tool of Public health agency of Canada. The questionnaire assess the community capacity in 9 feathers; participation, leadership, community structure, extemal support, asking why, obtaining resources, skill·knowledge·learning, linkng with others and sense of community. Each feather was assessed in 1~4 questions on 4 point rating scales and was calculated mean score. Student t-test and oneway ANOVA test were performed.
Results: 35 subjects participated in this study and among the subjects, 29 were public officers from 14 public health centers and 9 were practitioners of 5 NGOs. Most of the subjects were women (32 person ,94.3%) and their 30's were 13 person(37.1%), 40's were 11 persons(31.4%). The mean score of the 9 features were 2.41. Among the 9 feathers, 'obtaining resources' scored 2.82 point which was the highest but 'community structure' scored 2.16 which was the lowest. The mean score of the feathers was relatively lower than that of Canada health promotion organizations. The factors affecting community capacity were level of interest for community and other variables had no significance.
Conclusion: This study suggested that the general community capacity of subjects had lower scores and further efforts to build community capacity are strongly required. Among the 9 feathers of community capacity, leadership, community structure and asking why get relatively lower score than other feathers and required additional effort to build these feathers. This study had restriction on shortage of number of subjects and lack of consideration on adequacy of community capacity for Healthy cities initiatives in Korea, but there were usefulness for further study on this displinary.
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