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COMMUNITY HEALTH I

Category: Department of Clinical Medicine & Surgery

Faculty: Faculty of Clinical Sciences

Year of Study: 1

Semester: 1

Module Outcomes:

Code: CHE 113

Hours: 30

Credit: 3

Competence

This module is designed to enable the learner identify determinants of diseases in the community, plan community health education, design and deliver health promotion messages.

Module Outcomes

By the end of this module the learner should:

Identify determinants of health status in the community
Participate in the process of planning and implementation of Primary Health Care (PHC) and Community Based Health Care (CBHC activities.
Plan, organize and facilitate health education-related messages
designing of health promotion materials

Course Content

Module Content

Introduction; community definition, WHO definition, types of communities, functions of community, community feeling, and dimension of community, functions as dimension of community, health and community systems. Health-definition of health, models of health, dimensions of health.

Concepts of community health, purpose of community health, objectives of community health.

Health promotion; definition, principles, illness prevention, levels of prevention, health restoration.Ottawa charter.

Health Education; definition, aims and objectives, health education approaches, steps in carrying out health education program, common topics of health education. Methods of health education, planning for health education and tips for health education.

Primary Health Care (PHC); definition, characteristic of PHC, principles of PHC, Elements of PHC, MDG- concepts and definitions.SDGs. Vision 2030.

Community Based Health Care (CBHC); Introduction to Community Based Health Care and Community Health Strategy.

Health Promotion Materials; teachingaids, posters, charts, videos, demonstrations, role plays.

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Lessons

Introduction to community health I

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