Dimensions of Community Assets for Health. A Systematised Review and Meta-Synthesis

Pablo Alberto Sáinz-Ruiz, Javier Sanz-Valero, Vicente Gea-Caballero, Pedro Melo, Tam H. Nguyen, Juan Daniel Suárez-Máximo and José Ramón Martínez-Riera
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Pablo Alberto Sáinz-Ruiz: Department of Community Nursing, Preventive Medicine, Public Health and History of Science, University of Alicante, 03080 Alicante, Spain
Javier Sanz-Valero: Department of Community Nursing, Preventive Medicine, Public Health and History of Science, University of Alicante, 03080 Alicante, Spain
Vicente Gea-Caballero: Adscript Center of Universidad de Valencia, Research Group GREIACC, Health Research Institute La Fe, Nursing School La Fe, Avda. Fernando Abril Martorell, 106. Pabellón docente Torre H, Hospital La Fe, 46026 Valencia, Spain
Pedro Melo: Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Health, Institute of Health Sciences, School of Nursing (Porto), Universidade Católica Portuguesa, 4169-005 Porto, Portugal
Tam H. Nguyen: William F. Connell School of Nursing, Boston College, Newton, MA 02467, USA
Juan Daniel Suárez-Máximo: Titular de la Oficina Estatal de Educación de la Asociación Mexicana de Estudiantes de Enfermería, División Puebla, Teziutlán 73800, Mexico
José Ramón Martínez-Riera: Department of Community Nursing, Preventive Medicine, Public Health and History of Science, University of Alicante, 03080 Alicante, Spain

IJERPH, 2021, vol. 18, issue 11, 1-20

Abstract: Since Aaron Antonovsky’s salutogenesis theory and Morgan and Ziglio’s health assets model were first proposed, there has been a growing concern to define the resources available to the individual and the community to maintain or improve health and well-being. The aim of the present study was to identify the dimensions that characterise community assets for health. To this end, we conducted a systematised review with a meta-synthesis and content analysis of research or projects involving asset mapping in the community. Articles that met our eligibility criteria were: (1) based on the salutogenic approach and (2) described an assets mapping process and among their results, explained what, how and why particular community assets for health had been selected. The search included primary studies in the published and grey literature which were selected from websites and electronic databases (Web of Science, MEDLINE, Scopus, EBSCOhost, Dialnet, SciELO). Of the 607 records examined by a single reviewer, 34 were included in the content analysis and 14 in the qualitative synthesis. Using an inductive process, we identified 14 dimensions with 24 categories, for which in-depth literature reviews were then carried out to define specific indicators and items. These dimensions were: utility, intention, previous use, accessibility (“circumstances–opportunity–affordability”), proximity-walkability, connectivity, intelligibility (visibility, transparency), identity (uniqueness, appropriability, attachment), design (configuration, functionality, comfort), safety (objective/subjective), diversity, the dimension of public and private, and sustainability (which includes maintenance, profitability or economic sustainability, environmental sustainability, centrality-participation and equity-inclusiveness).

Keywords: health assets; salutogenesis; dimensions; categorical analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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