Multidisciplinary outreach teams (comprising a geriatrician, nurse, physiotherapist and occupational therapist) provide community health-care services to old age home residents, including follow-up of chronic conditions and treatment of acute illnesses.
One outreach team comprising ten CHWs maintained both the paper forms and mHealth system to record household data on community-based services.
One of the dominant models of care of the disease management programs for patients with chronic cardiovascular conditions involve hospital based clinics and outreach services (comprising home visits and telephone contacts) led by nurses and clinical pharmacists with cardiologist oversight [ 41].
It comprises media outreach through TV, radio, billboard and poster campaigns alongside community-based interpersonal communications to change local behaviours.
The first intervention phase was from July to December 2010 and comprises; community outreach education and screening, re-training of community-based volunteers who were given bicycles, the provision of transportation to convey patients to and from clinic for daily treatment.
Targeted to children, communities and visitors to South Africa, the campaign comprises widespread outreach activities using digital, print and electronic communication materials, advertorials and point of purchase items and signage to advocate against child abuse and exploitation, child sex tourism and trafficking.
Through this process, ward based outreach teams (WBOTs) comprising community health workers, professional nurses, and environmental health practitioners who operate within the community to provide health related information on antenatal and postnatal care, immunizations and prevention and management of HIV.
This team comprises a group of specialist outreach nurses with the support of intensivists.
BCC comprises several types of sessions by outreach workers, counselors, sexual health service providers and peer educators to teach and encourage the truck drivers individually and in groups to follow safe sex practices.
Behaviour change communication comprises several types of sessions by outreach workers and peer educators to teach and encourage the sex worker individually and in groups to follow safe sex practices.
