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Community Participation, Discrimination, and Incarceration in Public Health

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Summary

This lesson explores how participation in community life can strengthen relationships and support health. Civic engagement can give people a sense of purpose while helping communities solve shared problems.

Civic participation is a range of activities that benefit a community and can also benefit the people who take part. Examples include volunteering in parks, nature reserves, senior centers, community centers, and adult day centers. Civic participation can also involve environmentalism, education, recycling, composting, farming, and community gardening.

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Civic participation
Activities that contribute to community life and may also benefit the people who take part.
Social capital
The value of relationships and networks that help people cooperate and solve problems.
Intersectionality
A way to understand how overlapping identities and social positions interact with systems of discrimination.
Recidivism
Being arrested or incarcerated again after a prior experience of incarceration.
Collective efficacy
A community’s ability to create change and influence behavior through trusted social norms.

Quiz questions

  1. What distinguishes structural discrimination from discrimination in an individual interaction?Answer: It is embedded in institutional policies, systems, laws, or practices.
  2. What does an intersectional approach help a community health nurse consider?Answer: How overlapping identities and social conditions can combine to shape a person’s experiences.
  3. Which action can support a person returning to the community after incarceration?Answer: Connect the person with health care, housing, food, and employment resources.
  4. What is social cohesion?Answer: The strength of relationships within a community.
  5. Which response can help children affected by a parent's incarceration?Answer: Coordinate support with school nurses, counselors, therapists, or early childhood programs.

Based on Population Health for Nurses by Jessica Ochs, Sherry L. Roper, Susan M. Schwartz (OpenStax), licensed CC BY 4.0. Adapted into a summary, flashcards and quizzes.

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