Setting up community health programmes
Subtitle: a practical manual for use in developing countries
By: by Ted Lankester.
Edition: 3rd ed., fully rev., 2008.
Publisher: Hesperian Foundation
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Berkeley, Calif
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780942364644
Subjects: Community health services -- Developing countries -- Handbooks, manuals, etc; Community Health Services -- methods; Community Health Planning -- methods; Developing Countries
Genres: Handbooks, manuals, etc
Description: "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.
Notes: Originally published: Oxford : Macmillan Education, c2007.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Setting the scene; title: Working as partners with the community; title: Health awareness and motivation; title: Initial tasks; title: Learning about the community; title: Drawing up plans; title: The community health worker; title: Setting up a community health clinic; title: Improving childhood nutrition; title: Setting up a childhood immunisation programme; title: Dealing with childhood illnesses; title: Setting up a maternal health programme; title: Setting up a family planning programme; title: Setting up a community TB programme; title: A community development approach to AIDS care, prevention and control by Ian Campbell and Alison Rader; title: Setting up environmental health improvements; title: Using medicines correctly; title: Monitoring and evaluating the health programme; title: Managing personnel and finance; title: Cooperating with others; title: How to make a programme sustainable.