Summary of Study Session 16
In this extended case study, you have learned that:
- Creating a community profile is one of the first tasks that is expected of a Health Extension Worker or Health Extension Practitioner.
- A good community profile will contain social and economic features that will help the healthworkers understand who is in the community.
- Community profiles also contain health data that will show what illnesses are the most important in the community.
- Data for the community profile can be collected by the healthworkers or by specially trained volunteers going from house to house.
- Health data can be collected from official sources and may be either quantitative or qualitative, or a mixture of both types of data.
- The data collected by a number of methods will establish the most important diseases to be tackled in the community.
- A detailed plan of implementation will be required to tackle the health problems that have been identified.
- Monitoring of the execution of campaigns is important to examine their success, and the control of knowing how much has changed is important too.
- Management is an integral part of the role of a Health Extension Worker.
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16.5 Dealing with a measles outbreak