Over half the world's rural population, and many in urban slums, have minimal access to health services. This book describes how to set up new, and develop existing, community-based health care for, by and with, the community.
Over half the world's rural population, and many in urban slums, have minimal access to health services. This book describes how to set up new, and develop existing, community-based health care for, by and with, the community.
Dr Ted Lankester is Founder and Co-Leader of the global health network Arukah Network (previously known as Community Health Global Network), and President and senior clinician with the international humanitarian support organisation Thrive Worldwide. He has written several books on travel health, as well as chapters on the health of expatriates and humanitarian workers. He has also pioneered new models of health care in the North Indian Himalayas (co-funded by DfiD (ODA) where he was involved in setting up a number of community health programmes in remote areas. Associate Professor Grills is a Public Health Physician with the Nossal Institute for Global health, University of Melbourne. Dr Grills works on non-communicable diseases, community health and disability largely in the Indian context. He researchers disability measurement and tobacco control policy with the Public Health Foundation of India and the CHGN Uttarakhand Cluster. He has worked in international health in Africa, Fiji, East Timor, PNG, Bangladesh and Nepal.
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* Section 1: Community Health Principles * 1: Community health: setting the scene * 2: Working as partners with the community * 3: Community health as part of the health system * 4: Health teaching and behaviour change * 5: Initial Tasks * 6: Learning with the community: participatory appraisal, community survey and diagnosis * 7: Drawing up plans * 8: The community health worker * Section 2: Community Health Management * 9: Monitoring and evaluating the health programme * 10: Managing personnel and finance * 11: Using medicines correctly * 12: How to make a programme sustainable * Section 3: Community Health Topics * 13: Setting up and improving a community health clinic * 14: Preventing and treating childhood malnutrition * 15: Setting up a childhood immunisation programme * 16: Dealing with childhood illnesses: diarrhoea, acute respiratory infection and malaria * 17: Setting up a maternal and newborn health programme * 18: Setting up a family planning and reproductive health programme * 19: Setting up a community TB programme * 20: A community development approach to HIV care, prevention and control * 21: Setting up environmental health improvements * 22: Non communicable and chronic diseases * 23: Disability and community based rehabilitation * 24: Setting up community mental health programmes * 25: Helping communities to manage disaster risk * 26: The use of information and communications technology (ICT) in health and development * 27: Community level responses to violence, abuse and reconciliation * 28: Community based home and palliative care
* Section 1: Community Health Principles * 1: Community health: setting the scene * 2: Working as partners with the community * 3: Community health as part of the health system * 4: Health teaching and behaviour change * 5: Initial Tasks * 6: Learning with the community: participatory appraisal, community survey and diagnosis * 7: Drawing up plans * 8: The community health worker * Section 2: Community Health Management * 9: Monitoring and evaluating the health programme * 10: Managing personnel and finance * 11: Using medicines correctly * 12: How to make a programme sustainable * Section 3: Community Health Topics * 13: Setting up and improving a community health clinic * 14: Preventing and treating childhood malnutrition * 15: Setting up a childhood immunisation programme * 16: Dealing with childhood illnesses: diarrhoea, acute respiratory infection and malaria * 17: Setting up a maternal and newborn health programme * 18: Setting up a family planning and reproductive health programme * 19: Setting up a community TB programme * 20: A community development approach to HIV care, prevention and control * 21: Setting up environmental health improvements * 22: Non communicable and chronic diseases * 23: Disability and community based rehabilitation * 24: Setting up community mental health programmes * 25: Helping communities to manage disaster risk * 26: The use of information and communications technology (ICT) in health and development * 27: Community level responses to violence, abuse and reconciliation * 28: Community based home and palliative care
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