Setting up community health programmes : a practical manual for use in developing countries / by Ted Lankester.
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TextPublication details: Berkeley, Calif. : Hesperian Foundation, 2009Edition: 3rd ed., fully rev., 2008, 2009Description: xiv, 426 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN: 9780942364644 (pbk.)Subject(s): Community health services -- Developing countries -- Handbooks, manuals, etc | Community Health Services -- methods | Community Health Planning -- methods | Developing CountriesDDC classification: 362.1209172/4 LOC classification: RA427.2 | .L36 2009NLM classification: WA 546.1| Item type | Current library | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Originally published: Oxford : Macmillan Education, c2007.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 412-417) and index.
Setting the scene -- Working as partners with the community -- Health awareness and motivation -- Initial tasks -- Learning about the community -- Drawing up plans -- The community health worker -- Setting up a community health clinic -- Improving childhood nutrition -- Setting up a childhood immunisation programme -- Dealing with childhood illnesses -- Setting up a maternal health programme -- Setting up a family planning programme -- Setting up a community TB programme -- A community development approach to AIDS care, prevention and control by Ian Campbell and Alison Rader -- Setting up environmental health improvements -- Using medicines correctly -- Monitoring and evaluating the health programme -- Managing personnel and finance -- Cooperating with others -- How to make a programme sustainable.
"A manual on how to start, set up, and manage a community based health care program in both urban and rural settings"--Provided by publisher.
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