Wasswa Chris; Health Navigator of The Year 2020
Health Navigator We use health Promotion and Navigation skills to promote effective involvement by persons and communities in self-care and social care skills promotion. We are participatory prevention practitioners. Carter (2018) in “Navigation delivery models and roles of navigators in primary care: a scoping literature review,” draws our attention to whom a Navigator is. Fragmentation of the social services systems has led to the need for connectors or advocates. In our case we use a navigator. There are roles and navigation service delivery models in grassroots based service deliver, care provision and agency. This in turn has led to various navigation models and as we continue to serve different population groups we realise we need a better understanding through a description of the roles of navigators and models of navigation at various levels including grassroots. We asked Wasswa Chris, a Social Justice Health Promotion Activist for five years; an End ...