Constructing evaluation model for sustainable development in community health and welfare

  • Authors:
  • Kuei-Yang Wu

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Architecture, National United University, Miaoli, Taiwan, ROC

  • Venue:
  • WSEAS TRANSACTIONS on SYSTEMS
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

In the recent years, an important issue in the process for sustainable development in Taiwan village communities has emerged as that our villages has been aging and the young people and men in their prime have been moving out into the cities for job reason, which results in the improper care for community elders and children physically and mentally. Our government has thus actively promoted various health welfare measures to improve community living environment and raise the living quality of community residents. We can see from these that community health and welfare have become issues needed immediate solutions in Taiwan's communities. This study applied Fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process (FAHP) to examine these issues and selected three communities in Miaoli County, Taiwan for real case survey, analysis and evaluation in order to propose the best guidelines for the future references in community self diagnosis, enhancing improvement and strategies planning. Our results indicated that, to create community health, it needed particularly to strengthen: community organizational operation flexibility, spontaneous sense of community, local self-sufficiency and link with the government to form excellent communities mutually helped by industries, government, school and citizen, and to realize their advantages and improve their disadvantages thru these guidelines.