The Effectiveness of Community Health Care Programs

Beverly Ochieng, Dan Kaseje (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

257 Seiten

2023 | Unabridged edition
Cambridge Scholars Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-5275-1679-3 (ISBN)

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The focus of this book is community-based health care with community health workers as a critical workforce in health improvement. Professionals, policy makers, managers, and service providers need to grasp the critical fact that engaging people from their own perspective is vital to health-seeking behaviors. This book explores case studies illustrating experiences with community engagement and the techniques used for successful Community Based Health Care (CBHC). It will be of interest to students training to be health care professionals, service providers, and managers of health services, policy makers, researchers and academics.

Beverly Ochieng holds a PhD in Community Health and Development, a Master of Science Degree in Community Health and Development, and a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Community Health and Psychology. She is currently a Research Fellow with the Tropical Institute of Community Health, Kenya, and her research interests include the strengthening of health systems aimed at enhancing access to quality care at the community level by providing evidence to influence policy and practice. She has held a range of senior leadership roles and participated in collaborative research on community health and the development of health systems, both locally and internationally.Professor Dan Kaseje, MB, ChB, MPH, PhD, is the Director of the Centre of Research Excellence at the Tropical Institute of Community Health and Development, Kenya. He has led several health systems networks, such as the Christian Medical Commission of the World Council of Churches, International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, and Christian Health Association of Kenya (CHAK). He also spearheaded the development of the community health strategy, a framework adopted by the Kenyan Government for the implementation of the essential care package for health, and has led public health interventions in fragile states such as Sierra Leone, the Arab Republic of Syria and Libya.

Erscheinungsdatum	26.07.2023
Verlagsort	Newcastle upon Tyne
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 212 mm
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitswesen
Themenwelt	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Prävention / Gesundheitsförderung
ISBN-10	1-5275-1679-2 / 1527516792
ISBN-13	978-1-5275-1679-3 / 9781527516793
Zustand	Neuware