UNCHS Community Development Programme

"You may be interested to see one of the files I put on: Elements of Community Strength. It is one of a whole series of pages of training material and guidelines for community development field workers. We use the term 'empowerment' along with related terms 'capacity building' and 'strengthening' to describe our purpose of community mobilizing and organizing. But what does it really mean to empower a community? We in the field are always at pains to disagree with the engineers that limit their ideas to the hardware, as do most of the politicians, journalists and many community leaders. This page is an attempt to systematize the social process of a community developing, listing sixteen elements of community strengthening."
- Phil Bartle

Seattle Sites

UW Harborview EthnoMed and the earlier EthnoMed: Voices of the Communities

"Here's an interesting site. It's easy for Westerners to fall into the trap of seeing medicine as a purely technical problem, whether that technique be antibiotics or acupuncture. This site is mainly about cultural issues affecting health and medical treatment among some of Seattle's ethnic minority populations (e.g. Vietnamese, Cambodian, various Ethiopian cultures). Health consequences of religiously based fasting and feasting; different degrees of familiarity with Western medicine; stigmas on various diseases in various cultures; etc., etc, etc. Crucial reading for those in the healing professions, interesting reading for the rest of us."
- Joe Mabel

UW Health Sciences - Your Health

"NOAH is linked from the page, along with lots of places. There is a search engine which, when I typed in 'pain,' came up with 63 items. Anyway this UW link is well respected."
- Elaine Chan