Ridgewood Bushwick publishes its own newspaper, The Bushwick Observer, which focuses on the improvements in the community, often crediting them to Mr. Lopez and his allies.
Therefore, entrepreneurship implies the process of creation and bringing improvements in the community by discovering market requirements and introducing enterprise to meet the demands.
We also plan improvements in the community like the ability to paint over someone else work and build a marketplace where our best painters will be able to sell their work," he says.
The main objective of the study is to learn to what extent has Nestlé contributed to fulfilling the societal aspirations and expectations of the people working in and around its factory in terms of employment generation, poverty alleviation, general improvements in the community's standards of living and environmental conservation.
"With all these interventions we can see positive health improvements in the community".
Different studies conducted after the implementation of this HSEP indicated that, there were improvements in the community health.
Some felt this was limited to having access to the final study results, while others believed that this knowledge should be translated into improvements in the community, such as policy changes or improvements in health and medical treatments and procedures.
Though impossible to solely attribute the health improvements in the community to these initiatives, what has been achieved is a growing sense of community, as local residents operate a food co-operative and café, and succeed in advocating for housing and transport improvements.
Because 1 'behavioural change first requires understanding' (p 103), the behaviour changes needed to achieve reductions in mortality from communicable and non-communicable diseases must be underpinned by improvements in the community's level of knowledge about the causes and prevention of these diseases.
Interestingly, a perceived improvement in the community site's cleanliness was also cited as an ongoing motivation, and social influences was not mentioned.
