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Community Organizations: Learning Organizations for Sustainable programs

142nd APHA Annual Meeting and Exposition (November 15 - November 19, 2014): http://www.apha.org/events-and-meetings/annual
Wednesday, November 19, 2014 : 8:30 AM - 8:50 AM

Paul Freeman, DR PH. MBBS, MHP(ED) MPH(TH) , Department of Global Health, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Organizations within communities, can have a key role in dealing with many of the current problems that occur when delivering Primary Health Care in developing countries. With clinical supervision from the local health center, and facilitation to build learning organizations, a variety of community health workers can come together to provide the range of health activities that are needed to deal with the range of common causes of morbidity and mortality in children and adults. Key findings from an example of such organizations recently evaluated in rural Mozambique will be presented to illustrate these points.

Learning Areas:

Implementation of health education strategies, interventions and programs
Program planning
Provision of health care to the public
Social and behavioral sciences
Systems thinking models (conceptual and theoretical models), applications related to public health

Learning Objectives:
Describe the range of health programs that are currently needed at community level in developing countries. Describe how community organizations facilitated as learning organizations can meet these needs as illustrated by a recent program from Mozambique

Keyword(s): Community-Based Health, International Health

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: My qualifications DRPH,MBBS,MHP(ED) MPH(TH) and over 30 years experience in Primary Health Care programs in developing countries.
Any relevant financial relationships? No

I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.

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