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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Prepare Your Community for Pandemic Influenza

On June 11, 2009, the World Health Organization raised the level of influenza pandemic alert to phase 6, declaring the first influenza pandemic in over 40 years.

As more cases of the H1N1 virus emerge around the world, learn what you can do to prepare and train communities that you are working with.

Learn More about CORE Group's work on the Humanitarian Pandemic Preparedness (H2P) Initiative >>

Learn More about  the H2P Community Planning and Response Curriculum >>

 
 
 
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