Setting up community health programmes in low and middle income settings /

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Uniform title:Setting up community health programmes.
Edition:4 ed.
Imprint:[Oxford] : Oxford University Press, 2019.
Description:1 online resource : illustrations
Language:English
Series:Oxford medicine online
Oxford medicine online.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12600084
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Other authors / contributors:Lankester, Ted, editor.
Grills, Nathan J., editor.
ISBN:9780191844201
0191844209
Notes:This edition previously issued in print: 2019.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Online resource; title from home page (viewed on March 13, 2019)
Summary:A majority of people living in rural areas and urban slums worldwide have minimal access to healthcare. Without information about what to give a child with stomach flu, how to relieve the pain of a broken bone, and how to work against increased substance abuse in a village, the whole community suffers. Children, adolescents, adults, and older people are all affected by the lack of basic healthcare, such as vaccination, pain killers, and contraceptives. To improve living conditions and life expectancy, the people in urban slums and rural areas need access to a trained health care worker, and a functioning clinic. This text illustrates how to start, develop, and maintain a health care programme in poor areas across the world. The focus is on how people can work together to improve health through sanitation, storage of food, fresh water, and more.
Target Audience:Specialized.
Other form:Print version 9780198806653
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Summary:A majority of people living in rural areas and urban slums worldwide have minimal access to healthcare. Without information about what to give a child with stomach flu, how to relieve the pain of a broken bone, and how to work against increased substance abuse in a village, the whole community suffers. Children, adolescents, adults, and older people are all affected by the lack of what many of us view as basic healthcare, such as vaccination, pain killers, and contraceptives. To improve living conditions and life expectancy, the people in urban slums and rural areas need access to a trained health care worker, and a functioning clinic.<br> <br> Setting up Community Health and Development Programmes in Low and Middle Income Settings illustrates how to start, develop, and maintain a health care programme in poor areas across the world. The focus is on the community, and how people can work together to improve health through sanitation, storage of food, fresh water, and more. Currently, there is a lack of 17 million trained health care workers worldwide. Bridging the gap between medical professionals and people in low income areas, the aim of this book is for a member of the community to receive training and become the health care worker in their village. They will then in turn spread information and set up groups working to improve health. The book also explains in detail how communities can work alongside experts to ensure that practices and processes work effectively to bring the greatest impact.<br> <br> Copiously illustrated and written in easy-to-read English, this practical guide is designed to be extremely user friendly. Ideal for academics, students, programme managers, and health care practitioners in low and middle income settings worldwide, it is an evidence based source full of examples from the field. Setting up Community Health and Development Programmes in Low and Middle Income Settings shows how a community can both identify and solve its own problems, and in that way own its future.<br> <br> This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC 4.0 International licence.<br>
Item Description:This edition previously issued in print: 2019.
Physical Description:1 online resource : illustrations
Audience:Specialized.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780191844201
0191844209