Adapted from School of Public Health and Community Medicine. Community development is a process where community members are supported by agencies to identify and take collective action on issues which are important to them. Community development empowers community members and creates stronger and more connected communities. Community development is a holistic approach grounded in principles of empowerment, human rights, inclusion, social justice, self-determination and collective action (Kenny, 2007). Community development considers community members to be experts in their lives and communities, and values community knowledge and wisdom. Community development programs are led by community members at every stage - from deciding on issues to selecting and implementing actions, and evaluation. Community development has an explicit focus on the redistribution of power to address the causes of inequality and disadvantage. Culled from aifs.gov.au
Adapted from independent.ng Free Health Care (FHC) policies aim to reduce the financial barriers that people experience when trying to access health services. A FHC policy eliminates formal user fees at the point of service; this can be for all services, for primary health care, for selected population groups, for selected services for everyone or for selected services for specific population groups, usually characterized by medical or economic vulnerability. Examples of services under a free health care policy include antenatal care, assisted deliveries, caesarean sections, health services for children below a defined age (often five years), or a set of services for elderly people above a certain age (often 65 years). These services are chosen to protect population groups deemed to be especially vulnerable, and particularly the poor. Easy-to-observe criteria such as age, pregnancy or defined geographical areas are used to determine whether a person is eligible for free health services...