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Why Community Health?

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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

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Social and Behavior Change Research

Reports

Tools from the SBC Working Group

NEW Efforts to Improve Exclusive Breastfeeding Coverage-Findings and Recommendations (2010)

Annex: Summary of Findings from Document Review

Qualitative Research Methods Training Curriculum

Links to additional resources

Examining the evidence of under-five mortality reduction in a community-based programme in Gaza, Mozambique
Powerpoint: Communication for Social Change (CFSC): Modeling Social Mobilization to Support Development (CORE Spring Meeting, April 2007)
The Change Project
Communication for Social Change: An Integrated Model for Measuring the Process and Its Outcomes
An Introduction to Barrier Analysis (narrated PowerPoint presentation)
Barrier Analysis (tutorial and manual)
Local Determinants of Malnutrition Studies (to help choose behaviors to target for nutrition interventions)

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