Community Health Planning
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Public health and health services development in postconflict communities: a case study of a safe motherhood project in East Timor.

29 Sep 2009 Armed conflict causes suffering in many countries; it contributes to poor health and hinders health services development. The effects of conflict are evidenced by weakened community structures and can make reconstruction efforts challenging. East ... Read more...

Breast cancer screening among Vietnamese Americans: a randomized controlled trial of lay health worker outreach.

29 Sep 2009 BACKGROUND: Vietnamese-American women underutilize breast cancer screening. DESIGN: An RCT was conducted comparing the effect of lay health workers (LHWs) and media education (ME) to ME alone on breast cancer screening among these women. ... Read more...

Burden of disease caused by Haemophilus influenzae type b in children younger than 5 years: global estimates.

10 Sep 2009 BACKGROUND: Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) is a leading cause of childhood bacterial meningitis, pneumonia, and other serious infections. Hib disease can be almost completely eliminated through routine vaccination. We assessed the global burden ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Community Health Planning'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Public health and health services development in postconflict communities: a case study of a safe motherhood project in East Timor. 29 Sep 2009
• Breast cancer screening among Vietnamese Americans: a randomized controlled trial of lay health worker outreach. 29 Sep 2009
• Shall we put the world on folate? 17 Sep 2009
• Burden of disease caused by Haemophilus influenzae type b in children younger than 5 years: global estimates. 10 Sep 2009
• Global patterns of mortality in young people: a systematic analysis of population health data. 10 Sep 2009
• The association of breast cancer and meningioma in men and women. 30 Aug 2009
• Population-based study of pseudoprogression after chemoradiotherapy in GBM. 30 Aug 2009
• Outcome of the complex regional pain syndrome. 30 Aug 2009
• Preventing postpartum smoking relapse: an opportunity for neonatal nurses. 30 Jul 2009
• Cognitive performance is related to cortical grey matter volumes in early stages of schizophrenia: a population-based study of first-episode psychosis. 15 Jul 2009
• The public health effect of economic crises and alternative policy responses in Europe: an empirical analysis. 5 Jul 2009
• Why cognitive performance in ADHD may not reveal true potential: findings from a large population-based sample. 29 Jun 2009
• A population-based nested case-control study of the costs of hip and knee replacement surgery. 29 Jun 2009
• Evidence that better outcome of psychosis in women is reversed with increasing age of onset: a population-based 5-year follow-up study. 15 Jun 2009
• Clinical versus population-wide donor services. 11 Jun 2009
• Clinical versus population-wide donor services. 11 Jun 2009
• Chiari type I malformation in a pediatric population. 30 May 2009
• Methodological complexities and the use of GIS in conducting a community needs assessment of a large U.S. municipality. 30 May 2009
• Towards a common definition of global health. 30 May 2009
• Analysis using life tables of the major causes of death and the differences between country of birth groups in New South Wales, Australia. 12 May 2009

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Technical information about 'Community Health Planning'

Definition: Planning that has the goals of improving health, improving accessibility to health services, and promoting efficiency in the provision of services and resources on a comprehensive basis for a whole community. (From Facts on File Dictionary of Health Care Management, 1988, p299)

Descriptor UI: D018672

Alternative terms: Community Health Planning; Community Health Plannings; Health Planning, Community; Health Plannings, Community; Planning, Community Health; Plannings, Community Health; Population-Based Planning; Planning, Population-Based; Plannings, Population-Based; Population Based Planning; Population-Based Plannings; Community Health Systems; Community Health System; Health System, Community; Health Systems, Community; System, Community Health; Systems, Community Health;

Related Mesh Headings: Community Health Services;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; history; legislation & jurisprudence; organization & administration; standards; trends; utilization; statistics & numerical data; ethics; methods;

Tree Number: N03.349.650.185;

History Note: 95

Technical Notes: specify geog