community health

1. Advance Community health
introduction

2. definition
• Advance Community health is a major field
of study within the medical and clinical
sciences which focuses on the maintenance,
protection, and improvement of the health
status of population groups and communities

3. Conti-
• Access to quality healthcare is fundamental to
the overall health of the community. We want
to do everything to help our patients–and the
entire community–progress, improve, and
move toward a healthy lifestyle

4. What is Community Capacity
Building?
• Building community capacity and influence by
enabling individuals, groups and communities to
develop the confidence, understanding and skills
required to influence decision making and service
delivery
• This could include enabling communities to
provide and manage services to meet community
needs.’
(Source: Working Together to Build Stronger
Communities

5. Coni-
Community capacity building in Community
Learning and Development focuses on achieving:
• Confident, skilled, active and influential
communities.
• Effective and inclusive community organisations.
• Effective relationships between community
organisations and other organisations and
services.

6. Conti-
Staff providing community capacity building
support can face challenging issues of
accountability and may be working with
communities on issues that are politically
sensitive. It is therefore important that their work
is informed by commitment to a widely-
understood set of principles.
• Empowerment
• Participation
• Inclusion, equality of opportunity and anti-
discrimination

7. Community Health Education
• A process that informs, motivates & helps
people to adopt & maintain healthy practices
& lifestyles

8. Aims of community health education
• To ensure that health is valued as an asset in
the community
• To equip the people with skills, knowledge &
attitudes to enable them solve their health
problems by their own actions & efforts
• To promote the development & proper use of
health services

9. Objectives of community Health
Education
• Impart knowledge, this will:
– Clear the barriers of ignorance, & misconceptions
– Lead to assuming more responsibility towards
one’s health care
– Induce awareness about health needs, minimizing
the gap between needs & demands

10. Conti-
• Motivating people:
– The emphasis should be on motivating the
consumer to choose his own alternatives about
the health actions

11. Models
• Cognitive Model – “Telling people”
– Health
– Illness
– Ways to improving & protecting health & efficient
use of the delivery system.

12. Stages for community Health
Education
• Stage of Sensitization
• Stage of Publicity
• Stage of Education
• Stage of Attitude change
• Stage of Motivation and Action
• Stage of Community Transformation (social
change)

13. Contents of Health Education
• Personal hygiene
• Proper health habits
• Nutrition education
• Personal preventive measures

14. Conti-
• Safety rules
• Proper use of health services
• Mental health
• Sex education
• Special education (occupation, mothers
…..etc)

15. Communication
• Communicator: the person or the team gives
the message (Educator).
• Message: the contents (materials) of health
education
• Channel: method of carrying the message
• Audience: the receivers (users or targets) of
the message

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