Bronfenbrenner’s Ecological Model: Theoretical Lens for a Community-Based Research
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Apr 29, 2019
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Community-based research, Bronfenbrenner’s model, Ecological model, Development, Community
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A community-based research is used for addressing a complex situation in a community. It focuses on a people as a central of the development and also concerns all surrounding factors to move forward to achieve a better life of a person and a community as its ultimate goal. Bronfenbrenner’s model has been developed to improve the research method conducting in a community. The model involves person, process, context, and time to make change of a person by interaction with people and other environment in certain community. The model is used as a major of research method to improve community health today.
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Sunsern, R., & Lawang, W. (2019). Bronfenbrenner’s Ecological Model: Theoretical Lens for a Community-Based Research. Journal of Health Science and Alternative Medicine, 1(1), 4–7. Retrieved from https://he01.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/jhealthscialternmed/article/view/185644
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[21] Schiamberg LB, Gans D. An ecological framework for contextual risk factors in elder abuse by adult children. Journal of Elder Abuse and Neglect. 1999; 11(1): 79-103.