¶ Community health
From communityhealth.in
The components of community health action include [1]
- Integrating curative with preventive, promotive and rehabilitative activities.
- Experimenting with low-cost, effective, appropriate technology.
- Involving local, indigenous health knowledge, resources and personnel.
- Training village based health workers.
- Initiating and supporting community organisations in all aspects of health planning and management.
- Generating community support by mobilising financial resources, labour skills and manpower resources from the community.
¶ External links
- www.ctb.ku.edu - The Community Tool Box: the world's largest resource for free information on essential skills for building healthy communities.
- Wikipedia: Community health
- Community Health: Encyclopedia of Public Health - eNotes.com
- www.communityhealthglobal.net - Community Health Global Network website