The Health Council as a Strategy For Community Change

Roland Warren's community development-community action framework is used to analyze one community’s attempt to organize a health council as a strategy for community change.

Abstract

Increasingly, community development workers, health professionals, and volunteers are involved at the state, regional, and local levels in efforts to help improve health care delivery. As a result, a continuing need exists to clearly conceptualize community development and community action in relation to health care. This paper uses Roland Warren’s community development-community action framework to analyze one community’s attempt to organize a health council as a strategy for community change.