Setting up Community Health and Development Programmes in Low and Middle Income Settings
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Product details:
- Edition number 4
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 28 March 2019
- ISBN 9780198806653
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages544 pages
- Size 248x191x25 mm
- Weight 1130 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
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.
MoreLong description:
A majority of people living in rural areas and urban slums worldwide have minimal access to healthcare. Without information about what to give a child with stomach flu, how to relieve the pain of a broken bone, and how to work against increased substance abuse in a village, the whole community suffers. Children, adolescents, adults, and older people are all affected by the lack of what many of us view as basic healthcare, such as vaccination, pain killers, and contraceptives. To improve living conditions and life expectancy, the people in urban slums and rural areas need access to a trained health care worker, and a functioning clinic.
Setting up Community Health and Development Programmes in Low and Middle Income Settings illustrates how to start, develop, and maintain a health care programme in poor areas across the world. The focus is on the community, and how people can work together to improve health through sanitation, storage of food, fresh water, and more. Currently, there is a lack of 17 million trained health care workers worldwide. Bridging the gap between medical professionals and people in low income areas, the aim of this book is for a member of the community to receive training and become the health care worker in their village. They will then in turn spread information and set up groups working to improve health. The book also explains in detail how communities can work alongside experts to ensure that practices and processes work effectively to bring the greatest impact.
Copiously illustrated and written in easy-to-read English, this practical guide is designed to be extremely user friendly. Ideal for academics, students, programme managers, and health care practitioners in low and middle income settings worldwide, it is an evidence based source full of examples from the field. Setting up Community Health and Development Programmes in Low and Middle Income Settings shows how a community can both identify and solve its own problems, and in that way own its future.
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC 4.0 International licence.
This book provides an essential and comprehensive guide for anyone involved in setting up or managing community-based health care in a resource-poor setting, but its appeal is much wider that that.
Table of Contents:
Section 1: Community Health Principles
Community health: setting the scene
Working as partners with the community
Community health as part of the health system
Health teaching and behaviour change
Initial Tasks
Learning with the community: participatory appraisal, community survey and diagnosis
Drawing up plans
The community health worker
Section 2: Community Health Management
Monitoring and evaluating the health programme
Managing personnel and finance
Using medicines correctly
How to make a programme sustainable
Section 3: Community Health Topics
Setting up and improving a community health clinic
Preventing and treating childhood malnutrition
Setting up a childhood immunisation programme
Dealing with childhood illnesses: diarrhoea, acute respiratory infection and malaria
Setting up a maternal and newborn health programme
Setting up a family planning and reproductive health programme
Setting up a community TB programme
A community development approach to HIV care, prevention and control
Setting up environmental health improvements
Non communicable and chronic diseases
Disability and community based rehabilitation
Setting up community mental health programmes
Helping communities to manage disaster risk
The use of information and communications technology (ICT) in health and development
Community level responses to violence, abuse and reconciliation
Community based home and palliative care
