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Setting up community health programmes : a practical manual for use in developing countries / by Ted Lankester.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Berkeley, Calif. : Hesperian Foundation, 2009.Edition: 3rd ed., fully rev., 2008, 2009Description: xiv, 304p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9780942364644 (pbk.)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • RA425.L3 1992
Contents:
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.
Summary: "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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Books Books KMTC:NAIROBI CAMPUS RA425.L3 1992 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 19929
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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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