Setting up Community Health and Development Programmes in Low and Middle Income Settings

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Setting up Community Health and Development Programmes
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Section 1. Community health principles
	1 Community-based health care: Setting the scene
	2 Working as partners with the community
	3 Community health as part of the health system
	4 Health teaching and behavioural change
	5 Initial tasks
	6 Learning with the community: Participatory appraisal, community survey, and diagnosis
	7 Drawing up plans
	8 The community health worker (CHW)
Section 2. Community health management
	9 Monitoring and evaluating the health programme
	10 Managing personnel and finance
	11 Using medicines correctly
	12 Making a programme sustainable
Section 3. Community health topics
	13 Setting up and improving a community health clinic
	14 Preventing and treating childhood malnutrition
	15 Setting up a childhood immunization programme
	16 Dealing with childhood illnesses: Diarrhoea, acute respiratory infection, and malaria
	17 Setting up a maternal and newborn health programme
	18 Setting up a family planning and reproductive health programme
	19 Setting up a community tuberculosis (TB) programme
	20 A community development approach to HIV care, prevention, and control
	21 Setting up environmental health improvements
	22 Non-​communicable and chronic diseases
	23 Disability and community-​based rehabilitation
	24 Setting up community mental health (CMH) programmes
	25 Helping communities to manage disaster risk
	26 Use of information and communication technologies (ICT) in community health programmes
	27 Community-​level responses to domestic violence and abuse
	28 Community palliative and home-based care
Appendix A: Supplies needed by a small health centre
Appendix B: Community health resources
Appendix C: Using the family folder system
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