Setting up community health programmes : a practical manual for use in developing countries /
Lankester, Ted.
Setting up community health programmes : a practical manual for use in developing countries / by Ted Lankester. - 3rd ed., fully rev., 2008, 2009. - Berkeley, Calif. : Hesperian Foundation, 2009. - xiv, 426 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
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.
9780942364644 (pbk.)
2009031141
Community health services--Developing countries--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Community Health Services--methods.
Community Health Planning--methods.
Developing Countries.
RA427.2 / .L36 2009
362.1209172/4
WA 546.1 / L289s 2007a
Setting up community health programmes : a practical manual for use in developing countries / by Ted Lankester. - 3rd ed., fully rev., 2008, 2009. - Berkeley, Calif. : Hesperian Foundation, 2009. - xiv, 426 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
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.
9780942364644 (pbk.)
2009031141
Community health services--Developing countries--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Community Health Services--methods.
Community Health Planning--methods.
Developing Countries.
RA427.2 / .L36 2009
362.1209172/4
WA 546.1 / L289s 2007a