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Management of community health services:
Needs assessment and situation analysis

For frontline managers

• Community Health Needs Assessment: An Introductory Guide for the Family Health Nurse in Europe
  Ann Rowe, Anne McClelland and Kate Billingham, 2001, WHO Regional Office for Europe, EUR/01/5019306
  Profiling the population; getting information; using information;inequalities; a pack for practitioners; a pack for trainers
  (85 pages, pdf 327kb)
• Conducting Local Rapid Assessments in Districts and Communities
  Management Sciences for Health
  Advantages of local rapid assessment; preparation; 7 step approach; example Ethiopia; checklist
  (Web page with links to topics - click on the underlined headings to see the details)
• Scaling Up Home-Based Management of Malaria
  2004, WHO/HTM/MAL/2004.1096
  Home-based management, malaria control, situation analysis, information, education, communication, implementation strategy, monitoring, drugs, provider knowledge, community, research
  (Web page with link to download handbook 97 pages)
  En français: Mise à l’échelle nationale de la prise en charge à domicile du paludisme De la recherche à la mise en oeuvre

• See also District Needs Assessment