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The ideas around the community as an asset alongside the conceptualisation of coproduction as
multi-faceted and interlinking, is best illustrated by the figures below which provides a contrasting
view given by the statutory agencies in a PLA workshop. In the workshop, participants were asked
to map health services taking into consideration the notions of power, communication and
partnership working. It is evident that in the first example, figure 3, communities are considered
as part of a wider network, implying shared power and resources as opposed to being placed in
the centre (see figure 4). This may indicate that the individual is responsible for their own health
and they have the power and resources to make use of the services ‘provided’ for them. The latter
supports individualised conceptualisations of health, distracting from the dynamics of power and
societal inequality at play.

Figure 3: Mapping Communities Figure 4: Mapping Communities

Having highlighted the shifts in ideas about who the community are and what coproduction
involves, the following section will address how a shift in identities and ideas has led to a shift in
practices

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