Setting up community health programmes in low and middle income settings. / edited by Ted Lankester, Nathan J. Grills.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lankester, Ted, editor.

Grills, Nathan J., editor.

Series:

Oxford medicine online.

Oxford medicine online

Standardized Title:

Setting up community health programmes.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Community health services--Developing countries.

Community health services.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (545 pages)

Edition:

Fourth edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 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.

Notes:

This edition previously issued in print: 2019.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-252939-0

0-19-184420-9

0-19-252938-2