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Community Diagnosis - Strategy

This document outlines the steps for conducting a community diagnosis. It defines community diagnosis as identifying community health problems and their contributing factors. There are two main strategies - using questionnaires or focus groups to collect primary data, or reviewing existing health records for secondary data. Key steps include dividing into groups, identifying a community, designing diagnostic tools, assessing health problems, collecting and analyzing data, and writing a report. The report should describe the community, identified health problems and environmental/health system factors, and provide conclusions and recommendations. Various tools are reviewed for disease identification, environmental health inspection, and assessing the community and school health systems. Skills in questioning, observation, records review, and data analysis are needed.

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Community Diagnosis - Strategy

This document outlines the steps for conducting a community diagnosis. It defines community diagnosis as identifying community health problems and their contributing factors. There are two main strategies - using questionnaires or focus groups to collect primary data, or reviewing existing health records for secondary data. Key steps include dividing into groups, identifying a community, designing diagnostic tools, assessing health problems, collecting and analyzing data, and writing a report. The report should describe the community, identified health problems and environmental/health system factors, and provide conclusions and recommendations. Various tools are reviewed for disease identification, environmental health inspection, and assessing the community and school health systems. Skills in questioning, observation, records review, and data analysis are needed.

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Community Diagnosis strategy

DR OLAREWAJU SUNDAY
Community Medicine Department, Uni-Osun.
Outline
• Community diagnosis and strategies:

• Steps towards community diagnosis

• Community Description

• Disease problems and contributory factors

• Community diagnostic Tools


What is Community
Diagnosis?
What is Community Diagnosis?
It is the identification of community
health problems/diseases within the
Community and the predisposing
factors
Community Diagnosis
strategies
Strategies for Community Diagnosis
• This can be done in two major ways:

i. Community survey – use of questionnaires or focus group discussion tools -


Primary data tools

ii. Use of existing health record – General Outpatient Department registers -


secondary data tools

• This entails interaction with the following gatekeepers- community


members/individuals/household heads/community health system /school
health system/LGA health authority e.t.c
Steps towards community Diagnosis
Steps towards community Diagnosis
• Division of students into group/appointment of group leader

• Identification of the communities/visitation/entry

• Review and design Community diagnostic tool- Questionnaire & Checklist

• Assessment of health problem

• Data collection and Analysis

• Report writing and group presentation


REPORT WRITING
Report writing format
• Title Page
• Acknowledgement page
• Introduction:
• Materials and method: How the process was carried out?
• Findings- Result using assessment tools-
Disease problems
Environmental health problems
Community health system assessment
• Conclusion and recommendation
Community Description
• Location of the community
• Number of streets/villages within the community
• Demographic and socio-economic characteristics
• Existing culture, religion and traditional belief
• Available infrastructure: Schools, Churches/Mosques, Public and Private
hospitals, water supply and waste management.
• Festivals conducted within the community
Diseases/Health Problems
• Reported within the hospital/Observed within the community

• Communicable or Non- Communicable

• Contributory factors-
i. Environmental Factors:
ii. Health system Factors
Environmental Factors
• Water supply

• Refuse disposal

• Food and air hygiene

• Housing system

• Waste management
Health System factors
• Assessment of Health care structure: Traditional/Modern

• Type of services and referrals provided with the health care structure

• Common ailments seen, diagnostic method and treatment given

• Challenges encountered within the health system

• External support: NGOs and Philanthropic organizations


School Health System
• Type of schools – Public and Private, Primary and secondary

• Assessment of the school environment using checklist: water supply,


waste disposal, toilet system, noise/air pollution e.t.c.

• Inspection of the students in terms of personal hygiene

• Health education session


Community Diagnostic Tools
Review of existing Tool ( Each student with 5 tools)
• Disease identification Tool

• Environmental Health Inspection Tool

• School health inspection Tool

• Community health system tool


Skills needed to do community diagnosis
• Ability to ask questions using questionnaires

• Ability to review existing record-

• Good observation skills

• Basic computer skills- Data entry and analysis using excel

• Power point presentation


Thank you

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