- The one advantage of involving community in the implementation process of a survey is that any external errors pertaining to the survey process can easily be detected. Community members know their community, and can help in preventing irrelevant information that might otherwise exist in the survey process.
- One challenge of involving community in the implementation process is that another member behavior can cause survey process to ditch. Last year, I attended 3-day seminar in a small community in DeKalb, Iowa State. The topic of the seminar was on the health issues of community dysfunction. I was surprised to see how the implementation strategies to improve such community were the result of the community itself. It was the lack of community collaboration in the implementation process that become the idea of blameworthiness and pretexts.
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