The authors describe their development and implementation of a community outreach program to enhance interest in medicine through a cardiac dissection experience.
The geographical dispersion of the survivors of the terrorist attack warranted implementation of early outreach programmes in a total of 128 municipalities of all five regions of the country.
The project formed one of several case studies of early provincial implementation of PHC outreach team implementation, designed as rapid assessments providing a critical mirror on the unfolding policy process.
Phase 3 consisted of implementation of community outreach and education activities by the LHAs in their community.
A sequential mixed-methods approach was employed to design a screening campaign utilizing messages developed from community focus groups, followed by implementation of the outreach campaign intervention in two high-risk Kentucky regions.
5. Support the health sector to refine and operationalize the community outreach package tied to the community strategy along with developing guidelines for implementation of community outreach and indicators for judging performance.
Against an apparently favourable backdrop, the "simple rules" of primary health system change described in other settings provided a plausible framing of how changes were achieved in the implementation of PHC outreach teams in the North West Province.
Most respondents noted that several logistical problems associated with the planning and implementation of village outreach activities can only be adequately handled by male CHWs alongside ongoing work of female CHWs.
Reasons for such a result lie in inadequate sensitization, high population mobility and low implementation of planned outreach vaccination sessions, the latter being due to limitations in funds generation or allocation at the health center level for the transportation of teams.
This was accounted for as follows: BCG 1.1%, OPV 1.4%, DPT-HB-Hib 72.7%, measles 5.3%, yellow fever 19.5% Therefore we suggest improved communication for EPI, the introduction of DPT-HB-Hib with liquid Hib and the effective implementation of planned outreach sessions.
