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problem
How do we prioritize?
First, your health post team should
prioritize the disease burden
Decide which disease are most
common and serious
Decide which disease are most easily
preventable and easily treatable
Assess your resources for preventing or
treating the most common and serious
illness
Prioritization of the
problems in the
community
A systematic method of assigning greater or
Prioritization scheme
Problem
Importance
Community Serious
concern
ness
Prevalence
Manageability Total
++
++
+++
++
20
Malnutrition
+++
+++
++++
++
++
28
++
++++
++
20
Diarrhoea
+++
++
++
++++
++++
30
Pneumonia
+++
++++
+++
++++
+++
36
Lack of knowledge
about food value
+++
++
16
Illiteracy
++
++
+++
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Importance of MHP
1. Easy to control disease with the help of MHP.
2. It helps to solve the problem early when
detected.
3. It increases the interest about health and
disease for community member.
4. It helps to mobilize the local resource for their
own village.
5. It helps to increase participation of local people
to solve health problems.
6. It economies the means and sources.
7. People are involved in creative innovations.
8. It reduce the dependency to outsiders for
development of their own village.
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Introduction
Rational
Objective
Process
Planning (work plan)
Implementation
Evaluation
Suggestion
Steps of Micro-Health
Project
Assessment, Analysis
and Diagnosis of the
Community
Evaluation of the
Conducted Project
Planning of Health
Action
Organizing and
Implementing a
Project
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Steps of MHP
1. Planning of MHP
Steps of MHP
Planning of MHP
need identification (scientifically, find the
real need of the community)
Prioritize the health problem
Setting of goal or objective of community
Choosing the appropriate target
population
Finalize the contents to be taught
Finalization of the methods and media
Steps of MHP
Planning of MHP contd
Search for available resources (internal and
external)
Tentative time and venue should be finalized
before hand
Prepare the plan of action with the
community
Planning of time schedule
Planning of implementation
Planning of evaluation
Steps of MHP
Plan of action of MHP includes
S.N
o
1.
2.
Date
Program Target
/Activiti group
es
Venue
Method
and
media
Responsi
ble
person
Steps of MHP
2. Implementation of MHP
Form the MHP implementation committee
Give responsibility for the committee
members
Inform people about the program aim,
objectives, status and progress.
MHP
may
focus
on:
Environmental
sanitation,
MCH/FP,
Nutrition,
Communicable disease, School health etc.
Regular monitoring and directing the
program activities
Disseminate the progress of program in
media.
Encourage other villages to learn lesson
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Steps of MHP
3. Evaluation of MHP
Sustainability of MHP
Committee formation
Commitment taken
Induction during MHP
Follow up