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Nihaya M. Daoud¹, Hagar Bar-El², Nava Braverman², and Neri Laufer². (1) Faculty of Medicine, School of Public Health at The Hebrew University and Hadassah, P.O box 12271, Jerusalem, 91120, Israel, 972-2-6778067, nihaya@md.huji.ac.il, (2) Hadassah HMO, Patrecia & Russell Flieschmann Women's Health Center at Hadassah, P.O.B. 12000, Jerusalem, 91120, Israel

Background and Objectives: Three years ago a new initiative that brought together women of Beit Shemesh, a town near Jerusalem, with several community and health organizations formed a project that draws on the guiding principles and strategies of empowerment, capacity building, participation, multidisciplinary collaboration, equity and sustainability. It is called the "Women for Women’s Health"

The Project: “Women for women’s health” aims to empower women to improve their own health in accordance to their culture and needs. The project is being carried out for three years into three stages: preparation, planning and development, and community organization. Varied topics include lifestyle, women’s health through the lifecycle, heart health, psychosocial issues, coping strategies across the life cycle, specific to the current political situation.

The Process Analysis: Its aim is to elucidate and better understand the organization and dynamics of the project, which is often implied or taken for granted. The analysis examines how elements and activities apply to guiding principles and strategies of health promotion: empowerment, capacity building, participation, multidisciplinary collaboration, equity and sustainability. Each project components is analyzed some retroactively and some prospectively, according to its applicability to strategies of health promotion initiative. The analysis aims to identify for each phase, which activities refer to the strategies and how indicators of success reflect each specific strategy. This process helped us to review the project, identify strengths and weakness and try to enhance it. It is hoped that health promoters or others who are involved in development of health promotion initiatives in the communities adopt it as integral part of their work.

Learning Objectives:

• Discribe a multi-stages process for promoting women's health in the community
• Recognize the use of guiding principles of health promotion to the project's sustianability

Keywords: Community-Based Health Promotion, Women's Health

Presenting author's disclosure statement:
I do not have any significant financial interest/arrangement or affiliation with any organization/institution whose products or services are being discussed in this session.

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