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Why Community Health?
A community health approach:
- Builds partnerships with local people and institutions to create resources within a community
- Improves health provider skills
- Strengthens health systems
- Builds links between communities and formal health systems
- Promotes the use of volunteers for delivery of information, training, and care
CORE Group News
- Upcoming Meeting: Join us January 11th for the Community Health Worker Tool Orientation
- CORE Group's TB Working Group Thanks Outgoing Leaders, Welcomes Two New Co-Chairs
- CORE Group Welcomes Two New Members American India Foundation and Catholic Medical Mission Board
- Online version of Community Case Management Essentials released.
- Take Our Online Poll: Tell Us What Information You Are Most Interested In!
- The CORE Group fall meeting was held October 7-8 in Washington DC. Presentations from the meeting>>
- Congratulations to Henry Perry, Who Was Awarded the Dory Storms Award. Read his acceptance speech.
Featured CORE Group Resource
Featured CORE Group Member: Catholic Relief Services
CORE Group member Catholic Relief Services won the International Relief and Development Project of the year award for its tuberculosis project in Maguindanao, Philipines.
Project Manager Today magazine sponsored the Association for Project Management Award, which recognizes the special challenges international aid and development projects present to project teams and their stakeholders.
The four-year partnership project of Catholic Relief Services and the Integrated Provincial Health Office aimed to reduce TB stigma and TB morbidity and mortality through increased detection by upgrading health facilities and training health workers to become more responsive and effective at managing TB cases.
Community Health Network News Feeds
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