Temp Project

Health Capacity and Social problem analysis. Day 3. CORE 603.10, 2009

The workshop agenda

1.	Wiki set up and exercise. Write summary of the type of information that is available in each of the sites.

The FASD group attended a internet searcb in the Faculty of Medicine. The area of 'cause, manifestation, diagnosis' produced over 1000 hits in basic biochemistry journals. The cure, prognosis area was very scarce with few articles in physicain resource sites. The section on care, support, best practices and health promotion produced the largest number of hits in search engines from Nursing, Medicine, OT and

2.	Preliminary ideas of factors to consider in health capacity 3.	Positive Factors related to each site 4.	Social problems in each site

2. What would increasing health capacity look like for your topic? Your focus is on the person/ family and the direct support/front line. The following are some ideas that you might consider.

•	knowledge •	strategies •	ways to anticipate, manage, monitor health •	incentives for capacity •	tools for interacting with the health services and systems •	access to resources needed to build and maintain capacity •	the range of people, organizations and communities who are able to address problems, •	reducing problems of social inequity and social exclusion that impact on health •	social determinants of health •	connections and social support.

General Health Capacity factors that might be in play

3. and 4 Positive Factors and Social Problems. TempProjPage2

Factors to look into to increase health capacity How?

What lacks, gaps, excesses, social problems act to decrease health capacity? How?

Cause, manifestation, diagnosis

Factors to look into to increase health capacity How?

What lacks, gaps, excesses, social problems act to decrease health capacity? How?

Cure, prognosis, prevention

Factors to look into to increase health capacity How?

What lacks, gaps, excesses, social problems act to decrease health capacity? How?

Care, Support, Best practices, Health Promotions

Factors to look into to increase health capacity How?

What lacks, gaps, excesses, social problems act to decrease health capacity? How?

Control

Factors to look into to increase health capacity How?

What lacks, gaps, excesses, social problems act to decrease health capacity? How?

Summary of social problems to be investigated.