Please help! Confused HHD-er
I still haven't quite gotten my head around the elements of sustainability. I don't quite get appropriateness as an element and often confuse this with equity. Any help and explanations would be really good! Thanksss
If you just think about it logically, from what the word means - appropriateness is about the program being... appropriate to the situation of those you're trying to help; that's all there is to it.
For example:
- if most of the people you're trying to help are illiterate, it's hardly appropriate to give them literature on health-promoting behaviours; instead, try and deliver it visually or through talking to people
- if they don't have many electrical powerpoints or electricity is very expensive or (many other issues), don't try supplying them with iPads
- if they don't have cars, you need to make your program available within walking distance
- if the men won't allow the women out of the house, or to talk to other men, you need to find a way around that - you can't run a health or water or nutrition program without addressing that fact
A key thing with HHD is to try and move away from thinking of things in terms of textbook answers, and moving towards basic logical thinking - for example, rather than learning officially what makes a good program, just think logically about how it would play out in real life. Rather than learning a list of Costs Of NHPAs, just think - how does someone having cancer make us pay both money and emotionally? In this way, HHD is mostly common sense and requires much less Content Learning/"Studying" than you'd think. I didn't refer to any notes writing this, I just thought about what it meant off the top of my head, and I haven't looked at HHD notes in ages; I just used common sense.
It's a subtle difference, but in my experience makes all the difference in the world.
Does that make sense?