Community participation and participative management in a community of Badajoz, Extremadura, Spain

Abstract

The proposal developed from the professional technicians from the Center for Health Progress, consists of a beginning of a process of intervention and participation of the community to address problems and contribute to improving the quality of life of people in the area of coverage, with services, resources and support of existing institutions. With these thoughts are promoted Procedure Committee of the right margin of the Guadiana river describe throughout this article. The administration takes the training of health social worker team’s experiences around the community advised by March Marchioni, who helped with the training necessary for the development of the Community procedure. For this coordination to evolve a joint Intervention, it is necessary to carry out a Community Diagnosis enabling a shared vision, comprehensive and integrated community. This first stage of the process developed the Community Diagnosis with everyone involved and reported the results to the entire community. Following the pattern of analysis Dafoe, we can say that the right margin of the Guadiana river has some strengths and some weaknesses (internal analysis) approaching a series of threats and opportunities (external review). To achieve community participation and effective participatory management should be taken persistence and seize the opportunities. The fabric of voluntary right margin of Guadiana River Diagnóstico of area and serve to unite people in a common goal and to reduce existing dichotomization, so that the changes are positive and that threats become opportunities.