The thesis is concerned with finding strategies of community development suitable
for health promotion and a matching method of evaluation. The thesis contains
two literature reviews. The first examines the history and practice of community
development, the problems in the field of drug abuse prevention, especially in its
evaluation, and recent developments in health promotion within the context of the
new public health movement. The second literature review chapter examines
qualitative methodology and in particular recent developments in the use of case
studies. The design of the study in the thesis utilises multiple-case studies and
explanation-building with data matrix construction as the method of analysis. Two
multiple case studies of thirteen and twelve cases respectively use data from the
Community Approach to Drug Abuse Prevention (CADAP) Project. Detailed
analysis of ten matrices are presented for the First Stage Multiple-Case Study and
three for the second. Major conclusions are drawn about how a successful performance
in the processes of preparation and training in community development
lead to later successful community activity. Whether the preparation and training
is done by staff of the CADAP Project or by trained staff of host organisations
makes no difference to this outcome. Conclusions are drawn about community
development in general, its application to health promotion and its evaluation.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:ADTP/219413 |
| Date | January 1990 |
| Creators | Van Der Heide, George, n/a |
| Publisher | University of Canberra. Education |
| Source Sets | Australiasian Digital Theses Program |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Rights | ), Copyright George Van Der Heide |
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