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.
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. 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. This is an open access title available under the terms
of a CC BY-NC 4.0 International licence.
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