Introduction | To assess the level of community empowerment, Laverack proposes an instrument called the Empowerment Assessment Rating Scale (EARS), which has nine assessment domains related to community empowerment. Objectives | Translate to Portuguese and culturally validate the EARS for an ACeS community, a hospital community, a business community, and a school community. A review of the Portuguese translatio...
Effectively responding to children’s nutritional status and eating behaviors in Mozambique requires a community-based care approach grounded in sound nursing research that is evidence-based. The Community Assessment, Intervention, and Empowerment Model (MAIEC) is a nursing theoretical model that is based upon clinical decision-making for community health nurses using communities as a unit of care. We used the M...
Introdução: Enquadrar a Comunidade como unidade de cuidados, promovendo o empoderamento comunitário como processo e como resultado são princípios enformadores do Modelo de Avaliação, Intervenção e Empoderamento Comunitário (MAIEC) (1,2,3). Alinhados com o Plano Estratégico para o Setor da Saúde em Moçambique – 2014-2019 (4) que coaduna a procura de melhores soluções para a saúde, com o envolvimento das comunida...