Setting up Community Health and Development Programmes in Low and Middle Income Settings

Fourth Edition

Edited by Ted Lankester and Nathan J. Grills

This title fully covers the theory and practice of community based health care in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) era
Written in easy-to-read English with step-by-step instructions, it is accessible to health care workers worldwide
Copiously illustrated, this title is a source of both information and inspiration
Traditionally, aid and development has been done for communities, causing dependence and side-lining of local leadership. This book takes a completely different approach which places the community in the centre
The focus in this book is on collaboration between all relevant parties in both identifying and solving health priorities within a community
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC 4.0 International licence

New to this Edition:

The previous edition was written in the the Millennium Development Goals era. This edition is revised based on the current Sustainable Development Goals.
This edition is a more diverse and comprehensive source as the editors have added information on mental health, non communicable diseases, disability, addictions, home care and the use of ICT.
Increased focus on evidence based research.

Setting up Community Health and Development Programmes in Low and Middle Income Settings

Fourth Edition

Edited by Ted Lankester and Nathan J. Grills

Description

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.

Setting up Community Health and Development Programmes in Low and Middle Income Settings

Fourth Edition

Edited by Ted Lankester and Nathan J. Grills

Section 1: Community Health Principles
1:Community health: setting the scene
2:Working as partners with the community
3:Community health as part of the health system
4:Health teaching and behaviour change
5:Initial Tasks
6:Learning with the community: participatory appraisal, community survey and diagnosis
7:Drawing up plans
8:The community health worker
Section 2: Community Health Management
9:Monitoring and evaluating the health programme
10:Managing personnel and finance
11:Using medicines correctly
12:How to make a programme sustainable
Section 3: Community Health Topics
13:Setting up and improving a community health clinic
14:Preventing and treating childhood malnutrition
15:Setting up a childhood immunisation programme
16:Dealing with childhood illnesses: diarrhoea, acute respiratory infection and malaria
17:Setting up a maternal and newborn health programme
18:Setting up a family planning and reproductive health programme
19:Setting up a community TB programme
20:A community development approach to HIV care, prevention and control
21:Setting up environmental health improvements
22:Non communicable and chronic diseases
23:Disability and community based rehabilitation
24:Setting up community mental health programmes
25:Helping communities to manage disaster risk
26:The use of information and communications technology (ICT) in health and development
27:Community level responses to violence, abuse and reconciliation
28:Community based home and palliative care

Setting up Community Health and Development Programmes in Low and Middle Income Settings

Fourth Edition

Edited by Ted Lankester and Nathan J. Grills

Author Information

Edited by Ted Lankester, Co-Founder and Co-Leader; and President and Travel Medicine Physician, Arukah Network; and Thrive Worldwide, and Nathan J. Grills, Associate Professor Global Health, The Nossal Institute for Global Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

Dr Ted Lankester is Founder and Co-Leader of the global health network Arukah Network (previously known as Community Health Global Network), and President and senior clinician with the international humanitarian support organisation Thrive Worldwide. He has written several books on travel health, as well as chapters on the health of expatriates and humanitarian workers. He has also pioneered new models of health care in the North Indian Himalayas (co-funded by DfiD (ODA) where he was involved in setting up a number of community health programmes in remote areas.

Associate Professor Grills is a Public Health Physician with the Nossal Institute for Global health, University of Melbourne. Dr Grills works on non-communicable diseases, community health and disability largely in the Indian context. He researchers disability measurement and tobacco control policy with the Public Health Foundation of India and the CHGN Uttarakhand Cluster. He has worked in international health in Africa, Fiji, East Timor, PNG, Bangladesh and Nepal.

Contributors:

Trinity Zan (Chapter 26)
Technical Advisor, Research Utilization, Global Health Population and Nutrition, North Carolina, USA

Smisha Agarwal (Chapter 26)
Associate, Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Joel Hafvenstein (Chapter 25)
Executive Director, United Mission to Nepal, Kathmandu, Nepal

Jonathan Stone (Chapter 25)
Global Resilience Advisor, Tearfund, London, UK

Jubin Varghese (Chapter 23)
Deputy Director, Disability Community Health and Development, Emmanuel Hospital Association, New Delhi, India

Peter Grant (Chapter 27)
Co-Director, Restored, Teddington, UK

Amanda Marshall (Chapter 27)
Co-Director, Restored, Teddington, UK

Clement Chela (Chapter 20)
Lecturer in Project Management Department of Public Health
Lusaka University, Lusaka, Zambia

Ian Campbell (Chapter 20)
Coordinator, Affirm Facilitation Associates, London, UK

Alison Campbell (Chapter 20)
Coordinator, Affirm Facilitation Associates; and Consultant Facilitator, Urban Health, Salvation Army, USA

Julian Eaton (Chapter 24)
Senior Advisor, Mental Health, CBM International, Bensheim, Germany; and
Assistant Professor, Centre for Global Mental Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK

Nathan Grills (Chapters 22, 23)
Associate Professor Global Health, The Nossal Institute for Global Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

Mhoira Leng (Chapter 28)
Head of Palliative Care, Mulago Hospital and Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda; and Medical Director, Cairdeas International Palliative Care Trust, Aberdeen, UK

Ted Lankester (Chapters 1-19, 21)
Co-Founder and Co-Leader, Arukah Network; and President and Travel Medicine Physician, Thrive Worldwide

Setting up Community Health and Development Programmes in Low and Middle Income Settings

Fourth Edition

Edited by Ted Lankester and Nathan J. Grills

Reviews and Awards

"This book provides an essential and comprehensive guide for anyone involved in setting up or managing community-based health care in a resource-poor setting, but its appeal is much wider that that." - Mike Townend, Journal of the British Global and Travel Health Association

"... an engaging read and a worthwhile resource. Whether you are considering an overseas work placement, are involved in global health policy, planning, or research, or simply want to widen your horizons on the delivery of community-focused health care for vulnerable populations, each chapter provides sound food for thought." - British Journal of General Practice

"A highly practical and applied approach with plenty of frameworks, illustrations and examples which both help communicate key messages and can be used in teaching and training for a wide variety of audiences. In summary, this is an excellent resource for all interested in global health." - Marko Kerac, Clinical Associate Professor in Public Health Nutrition, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine