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