Community health refers to simple health services that are delivered by laymen outside hospitals and clinics.
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18 Facts About Community health
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Community health volunteers are members of the local community who have considerable knowledge of the health services available to the community and are used to identify and link beneficiaries or those in need and the registered providers.
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Community health workers are employees who do not necessarily come from the local community but have vocational, professional or academic qualifications which enable them to provide training, supervisory, administrative, teaching and research services in community health departments.
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Community health volunteers are members of the local community who have considerable knowledge of the health services available to the community and are used to identify and link those in need and the registered providers.
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Community health volunteers provide the most basic services such as distribution of Water chlorination tablets, mosquito nets and Health education material but will normally involve or work with registered clinicians when they encounter sick or recovering patients or those with complex or on-going needs.
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Success of community health programs relies upon the transfer of information from health professionals to the general public using one-to-one or one-to-many communication .
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Community health is generally measured by Geographical Information Systems and Demographic data.
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Traditionally Community health has been measured using sampling data which was then compared to well-known data sets, like the National Health Interview Survey or National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey.
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Community-based health promotion emphasizes Primary Prevention and population-based perspective .
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Community health can be improved with improvements in individuals' environments.
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Community health status is determined by the environmental characteristics, behavioral characteristics, social cohesion in the environment of that community.
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Community health-Based Participatory Research is a unique alternative that combines community participation, inquiry, and action.
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Community health-Based Participatory Research helps researchers address community issues with a broader lens and works with the people in the community to find culturally sensitive, valid, and reliable methods and approaches.
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The impact, importance, and success of the Affordable Care Act is still being studied and will have a large impact on how ensuring health can affect community standards on health and individual health.
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Problem identification and prioritization cycle have three phases that help benefit the community which is forming a health coalition, collecting and analyzing data for health profile, and identifying critical health issues.
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Community health workers are able to draw on their firsthand experience, or local knowledge, to complement the information that scientists and policy makers use when designing health interventions.
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Community health workers have been shown to promote chronic disease management by improving the clinical outcomes of patients with diabetes, hypertension, and cardiovascular diseases.
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Community health refers to the first level of health services provision in Kenya that comprises;.
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