Community Engagement in Health November 23, 2012

Community engagement in health: How can you contribute to decision-making?

Belinda Boyd, one of the leaders of community health engagement at Vancouver Coastal Health held an informative workshop on 15th November. The workshop focused on educating students about one’s own health and safety.

The workshop also aimed at expressing the idea of community health engagement and to spread the message to improve health care around the province of British Columbia. As it is always known, prevention is better than cure – this makes more sense in the idea of community health care as it aims to educate every member of the community to prevent rather than spend money for the cure. Health care is an expensive issue and to help bring costs down, preventing these issues from arising is one of the best ways to avoiding bills; which in turn cost the tax payer money.

Belinda also invited the students of New York Institute of Technology in Vancouver to be an active part of this community in spreading the message of Vancouver Coastal Health. We thank her for taking time out of her busy schedule and organizing this workshop. We hope to see her again.