Setting up community health programmes in low and middle income settings / edited by Ted Lankester, Nathan J. Grills.

"Arukah Network for Global Community Health."
Preceded by: Setting up community health programmes / by Ted Lankester. 3rd ed., fully rev., 2008

Section 1: Community Health Principles1: Community health: setting the scene2: Working as partners with the community3: Community health as part of the health system4: Health teaching and behaviour change5: Initial Tasks6: Learning with the community: participatory appraisal, community survey and diagnosis7: Drawing up plans8: The community health workerSection 2: Community Health Management9: Monitoring and evaluating the health programme10: Managing personnel and finance11: Using medicines correctly12: How to make a programme sustainableSection 3: Community Health Topics13: Setting up and improving a community health clinic14: Preventing and treating childhood malnutrition15: Setting up a childhood immunisation programme16: Dealing with childhood illnesses: diarrhoea, acute respiratory infection and malaria17: Setting up a maternal and newborn health programme18: Setting up a family planning and reproductive health programme19: Setting up a community TB programme20: A community development approach to HIV care, prevention and control21: Setting up environmental health improvements22: Non communicable and chronic diseases23: Disability and community based rehabilitation24: Setting up community mental health programmes25: Helping communities to manage disaster risk26: The use of information and communications technology (ICT) in health and development27: Community level responses to violence, abuse and reconciliation28: Community based home and palliative care

"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."--Provided by publisher