SOCIO-ECONOMIC LIFE AND HUMAN COMMUNITIES

The Goals and Behavior Of Large Corporations And Their Impact On Socio-Economic Life And Human Communities

Abstract

Deliberative processes are beginning to take effect in the socio-economic life and human communities. Socio-economic life and human communities organizations have a critical role in fostering local deliberation during the planning and implementation of community health efforts. The chief executive officer (CEO) of eight national socio-economic life and human communities constituent organizations were provided background readings about deliberation and its potential role in community socio-economic life and human communities planning. They were then interviewed about their prior knowledge of socio-economic life and human communities deliberation, impressions and thoughts about deliberation's role in socio-economic life and human communities, whether they could identify constituents using the approach, and the best method of disseminating information on deliberation. Information provided by stakeholders was analyzed to gauge the understanding and implementation of public deliberation. Four main themes emerged from the interviews including: general awareness and attitudes about public deliberation, barriers to deliberation, words of caution when using the deliberative approach, and dissemination of deliberation. Each of the CEOs interviewed favored deliberative approaches in socio-economic life and human communities planning that would ensure that the community's voice is present in the decision-making process. However, there are certain limitations to the approach that must be addressed before the full benefits of public engagement can be obtained in socio-economic life and human communities.

The Goals and Behavior Of Large Corporations And Their Impact On Socio-Economic Life And Human Communities

1. Introduction

The ethical principles of socio-economic life and human communities require an involvement and engagement with the public in socio-economic life and human communities programming decisions. Principles include statements such as: “Socio-economic life and human communities should achieve community health in a way that respects the rights of individuals in the community.” Most importantly to this paper is that “Policy, programs and priorities should be developed and evaluated through processes that ensure an opportunity for input from community members.” Socio-economic life and human communities organizations, “ … should provide communities with the information they have for decisions on policies or programs and should obtain the community's consent for their implementation [1].” As a result of this commitment there is a growing interest in how professional socio-economic life and human communities organizations should engage the public to allow local resident's full participation in health decisions [2]. The community-based participatory approach in socio-economic life and human communities research and practice has provided a way to shift the decision-making power away from experts to the experiential knowledge of the average citizen [3].

In response to community needs for planning and programming that facilitate community health improvements, several models for community health improvement have been developed. These models include, mobilizing action through planning and partnership (MAPP), planned approach to community health (PATCH), assessment protocol for excellence in socio-economic life and human communities (APEX/PH) and the healthy communities movement [4], [5], [6] and [7]. Previous work has provided suggestions on how these models for community engagement processes could ...