The community health visitor program

Building Program Understanding Tools Using Visitor Combinators

Program understanding tools manipulate program representations, such as abstract syntax trees, control-flow graphs, or data-flow graphs. This paper deals with the use of visitor combinators to conduct such manipulations. Visitor combinators are an extension of the well-known visitor design pattern. They are small, reusable classes that carry out specific visiting steps. They can be composed in ...

The Pfizer Foundation's Community Health Ventures program: providing models for community health partnerships.

In response to its concern for the future of community health centers (CHCs) and those who receive care in these centers, in 1997 the Pfizer Foundation created and funded Community Health Ventures (CHV), a four-year, $3.6 million grant-making program. It was designed to increase the capacity of centers to adjust to a changing health care environment. This descriptive special report discusses th...

Ethiopia's health extension program: improving health through community involvement.

The Health Extension Program is one of the most innovative community-based health programs in Ethiopia. It is based on the assumption that access to and quality of primary health care in rural communities can be improved through transfer of health knowledge and skills to households. Since it became operational in 2004-2005, the Program has had a tangible effect on the thinking and practices of ...

[Community Health Agent: status adapted with Family Health Program reality?].

This study analyses the status and work reality of Community Health Agents, with the purpose of contributing to the improvement of the Brazilian Health System (SUS) in small cities. It was discussed aspects related to their participation in the team of the Family Health Program (PSF) and their interaction with the community. It was observed a lack of motivation and experience, which compromises...

The Neponset Valley Community Health Coalition: an elder dental program.