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's Community Health Network

CORE Group convenes the Community Health Network, a community of practice fueled by more than 50 member organizations that come together with advocates, scholars, private sector, multilateral/global alliance representatives and others.

The Community Health Network advances the field of community-focused health programming by:
·    Systematizing and standardizing best practices
·    Generating recommendations, guidance and challenges for better programming
·    Creating and disseminating practical tools and approaches
·    Building capabilities of global health organizations and their in-country partners
·    Offering practical training and development for the global health workforce
·    Fostering partnerships and collaborative action

Much of this network activity takes place through eight technical Working Groups and our Practitioner Academy for Community Health.

 
 

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.

 
 
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