{"id":1646,"date":"2019-10-02T10:22:34","date_gmt":"2019-10-02T05:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/?page_id=1646"},"modified":"2021-10-27T16:12:37","modified_gmt":"2021-10-27T11:12:37","slug":"community","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pphib.org\/pphi-b\/what-we-do\/community\/","title":{"rendered":"Community"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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It is established for the fact that most health problems of the country and province are primarily related to individual, group behaviors and life styles. Medical staffs are not in a position to address fully those health problems that require continuous preventive and promotional activities. In other words, maintenance of health life and prevention of diseases in a community demands professionals who can apply models and practices of effective health education, communication for behavior change in a desired direction.<\/span><\/pre>\n
In addition to the existing health problems, communicable and non-communicable diseases could not be tackled in any other way than equipping every citizen or community member with the necessary knowledge of root of transmission and prevention mechanisms and motivating people to enforce those remedies. These actions require a wide range of activities including health education, advocacy, community participation, mobilization and behavior change communication by social organizers.
PPHI Balochistan had mainly focused on preventive and promotive healthcare: information, communication, health education and effective behavior change approaches towards health have been emphasized. On the other hand, it is well observed that there has been a shortage of adequately trained health professional in the field of information education and communication (IEC). Community activities are successfully promoted with reference to the their own ideas of purity\/pollution, cleanliness\/dirtiness, and health\/illness.<\/p>\n
FUNCTIONS OF SUPPORT GROUP AND COMMUNITIES<\/p>\n
PPHI-B organizes a \u201cSupport Group\u201d attached to every BHU. Each Group comprises carefully selected individuals who represent important interests like elected councilors, notables, teachers, religious leaders, students and minorities, etc. The Group meets at least once a month and integrates the BHU with the community that has a stake in the services delivered through the BHU. It is a responsibility of the Group to see that the BHU is enabled, on a sustained basis, to provide larger and better range of services. Social organizer conducts meetings of the support group.<\/p>\n
In most of the cases, social group members with the facilitation of health personnel and social organizers carry out health education and promotion. The support groups serve as a bridge between the communities and PPHI-B. Such engagement achieves the following objectives:<\/p>\n
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  1. Community health sessions at the BHUs through the medics and paramedics. <\/li>\n
  2. Community health sessions in the villages through support groups<\/li>\n
  3. School health sessions for educating children on health <\/li>\n
  4. Need assessment for sustainable PHC services<\/li>\n
  5. Community mobilization for maximum participation in PHC related initiatives<\/li>\n
  6. Identifying different health and social issues and devise ways and means for their solution \u2028with the help of the community through a participatory approach. <\/li>\n
  7. Regular contact with people through monthly support group meeting<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
    These community-based groups provide a strong support for delivery of healthcare services.<\/p>\n
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