Summary of Study Session 11
In Study Session 11, you have learned that:
- The purpose of developing your community profile is to collect baseline data on health and health-related problems in your community, which helps you in the planning, implementation and evaluation of your health programmes.
- The data to be collected for your community profile include:
- kebele boundaries and locations of key services
- demographic data (number of people and households, ages and genders, birth and death rates, income and socioeconomic data)
- epidemiological data on morbidity and mortality rates from different causes
- social/community needs
- health service data on provision and access to health services
- local knowledge, attitudes and beliefs on important health topics
- behavioural data on patterns of use of health services
- environmental data affecting health locally.
- The purpose of collecting health service data is to identify strategies that improve the access of every member of the community to effective healthcare and health promotion.
- The questions that the community survey can help you to answer include whether individuals receive the necessary health interventions, what determines the probability of an individual receiving a needed health intervention, and what are the barriers preventing the whole population receiving the required health services.
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11.3.4 Data on knowledge, attitudes and practice (KAP)