Community Involvement in Health Development: Challenging Health Services

WHO
Publication year: 
1991

This report discusses appropriate mechanisms for community involvement in different social, economic, and political contexts and identifies the corresponding requirements for training health personnel and strengthening communities. Participatory methods are suggested for training health workers. It is suggested that monitoring and evaluation involves a mixture of quantitative and qualitative techniques.

Interest groups: 
This article will be of interest to health planners and managers. Researchers will be interested that although much of this article is devoted to information and participation, the techniques advocated are to do with RRA rather than PRA.
Source publication information
Series: 
WHO technical report series, no. 809
Pages: 
56 p.
Publisher
WHO
WHO
Geneva
Holdings: 
IDS H2
Publisher reference: 
WHO

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