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Setting Up Community Health Programmes : a practical manual for use in developing countries / Ted Lankester.

By: Material type: TextPublication details: Oxford : Macmillan Education, 2007.Edition: 3rd ed. fully rev., 2008Description: xiv, 426 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9781405086028
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 362.12 22 LAN
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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Item type Current library Call number Status Barcode
Books Bishop Barham University College Library Closed Access l Short Loan 362.12 LAN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 5744BBUC
Books Hamu Mukasa Library Closed Access l Short Loan; Level 1 362.12 LAN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 105365

Originally published: Oxford : Macmillan Education, c2007.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 412-417) and index (p. 418-425).

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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