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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CORE Group News

  • Register for this year's CORE Group 2010 Spring meeting:  Getting to the Heart of the Matter: Communities and Health Systems Strengthening, Baltimore, MD April 26-30 This year's keynote speaker: Dr. Adrian Hopkins, Task Force for Global Health.  Concurrent sessions include: Community Case Management; Community Health Worker Functionality; Operations Research; Health Systems, Epidemics, and Emergencies (H2P project); and mHealth.
  • Check out the Preliminary Agenda for the Spring Meeting
  • Bring your old cellphone to the Spring meeting to help medical clinics in the developing world! This year, CORE Group has partnered with Hope Phones to save lives.
  • CORE Members: Help Shape the Future of CORE Group. 3 Board of Director Positions Open, Seeking Nominations from CORE Group Member Organizations The Nominations Committee is seeking nominations by e-mail for the following positions by March 15, 2010: 1 Technical Liaison and 3 At-Large Members. E-mail contact "at" coregroupdc.org or call 202-380-3400 to learn how you can nominate someone.

Featured CORE Group Resource

Social and Behavior Change Tools

One of CORE Group's most active working groups is the Social and Behavior Change (SBC) Working Group.

Check out SBC's contributions to this field that cross cuts all programs.

Learn more about Barrier Analysis...a rapid assessment tool used in community health and other community development projects to identify behavioral determinants associated with a particular behavior. These behavioral determinants are identified so that more effective behavior change communication messages, strategies and supporting activities (e.g., creating support groups) can be developed.

 

 

Polio Eradication Initiative

The CORE Group Polio Eradication Initiative

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New Review Shows Effectiveness of Community-based Primary Health Care

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Nutrition An After Thought?

A 2008 Lancet series categorized nutrition as an “after thought” in development priorities.

To address this and catalyze action among policy makers, a consortia of partners, including the World Bank, UNICEF, WHO, WFP, and  a range of developing country partners, CSOs and bilateral agencies developed a policy brief, Scaling Up Nutrition: A Framework for Action. The brief outlines key considerations, principles and priorities needed to address under-nutrition.

Learn more about Scaling Up Nutrition: A Framework for Action

Read the policy brief 

Endorse the Framework for Action

Endorsement by your organizations will help to demonstrate the broad consensus among nutrition experts and advocates about what is needed now to address maternal and child under-nutrition.

Send us your organization's logo by March 15, 2010 to contact  'at' coregroupdc.org

Learn More about CORE Group's upcoming spring meeting session on nutrition.

Featured CORE Group Member: Save the Children

Saving Newborn Lives
 

Globally there are 3.8 million newborn deaths in the first month of life.  Watch this video to find out what CORE Group member Save the Children is doing in Malawi and Nepal to save newborn lives.

Learn more about CORE Group's activities in Safe Motherhood and Reproductive Health.

 

 
 
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