Capacity for Community Development: An Approach to Conceptualization and Measurement.

McLean, Scott; Ebbesen, Lori; Green, Kathryn; Reeder, Bruce; Butler-Jones, David; Steer, Sheilage

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Publication Date: 2001

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Capacity for Community Development: An Approach to Conceptualization and Measurement.

McLean, Scott; Ebbesen, Lori; Green, Kathryn; Reeder, Bruce; Butler-Jones, David; Steer, Sheilage

Journal of the Community Development Society, v32 n2 p251-70 2001

Capacity, defined as knowledge, skills, commitment, and resources of individuals and organizations to plan, implement, and evaluate health promotion, was measured through surveys of 27 health-care practitioners and organizations in Saskatchewan. Results were used to develop checklists of organizational capacity for health promotion. (Contains 18 references.) (SK)

Descriptors: Check Lists, Community Development, Foreign Countries, Health Promotion, Institutional Characteristics, Measurement Techniques

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Language: English

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