The document discusses empowering individuals and communities to take control of their health. It provides several suggestions for actions that could be taken, including:
1. Facilitating community understanding and action by listening to community demands, identifying community leaders, and building evidence to inform policy.
2. Empowering communities by strengthening health promotion capacity, individual empowerment, community empowerment, and health systems.
3. Taking an intersectoral action approach that involves other sectors, improves financing, scales up microfinance initiatives, and integrates planning.
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1. The Wall at 7 GCHP - Images from Day 1 Question of the Day ATTENTION Today's Sub-plenaries Mass Events Pandemics and settings Diabetes and Development If you were in a position to decide policy, name ONE action you would take to empower individuals and communities to take control of their health? Cartoon Poll
38. Health promotion capacity Individual Empowerment Community Empowerment Health systems strengthening Intersectoral action Respecting culture and demands Health literacy Give them the means to access information People have agency listen to their demands and act on them Better awareness: health as human right: social justice Identify community leaders/activists Build the evidence to inform policy Listen give them voice! Facilitate community understanding and action Let them hold government accountable Less top down, more bottom up Powerful communities are organised communities Learn community perspectives Stop talking, Take action Get other sectors to find answers Better financing Strengthen/empower all ministries Universal education Scale up microfinance initiatives community makes public policy Involve traditional practitioners People-centred care Empower the health promotion workers Improve equity Integrated planning
39. Bottom line The answer to the question about how to act on one track (how to empower communities), requires that action be taken on ALL tracks
49. Cartoon Poll Results Making decisions? 16 26% Clean up the filth 16 26% It doesnt work this way 13 21% What do we do? 16 26% Invalid Vote 1 Total Votes 62
50. Watch this space for tomorrows cartoon poll and Question of the Day