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Community Health

The Minimum Activity Package (ADM) in the area of "Community Health"

 Integrated Care of Newborn and Child Diseases at the Community Level (PCIMNE-C)

(Promotion of 17 key family practices for newborn and child survival).

  • Promoting the physical growth and mental development of the child.
  • Disease prevention: vaccination, IBD, IEC, home visits.
  • Appropriate home care: diarrhea, malaria, pallor, cough/cold, pneumonia, stuffy nose, injuries, accidents.
  • Care for the mother and the newborn.
  • Referral of cases as required according to national reference and counter-reference guidelines.

Promoting hygiene, sanitation and the use of clean water

  • IEC/CCC (water hygiene, living environment, waste and wastewater management, hand washing).
  • Monitoring (food, public and emergency hygiene).

Tuberculosis management at the community level (community dots)

  • Early reference of chronic coughers,
  • Supervision of TB drug use,
  • Search for irregular patients,
  • IEC/CCC.

Integrated disease surveillance at the community level

  • Notification/census of cases (target diseases of EPI, diseases with epidemic potential, other diseases: malaria, dracunculosis, etc.) and noncommunicable diseases.
  • Reporting cases to health training managers.
  • IEC/CCC.

Integrated drug, vaccine and product/material distribution campaigns

  • Social mobilization before, during and after the campaign,
  • Polio Vaccine Administration, Vitamin A, Albendazole,
  • Distribution of insecticide-treated mosquito nets and monitoring their use,
  • Distribution of other materials. 

Maternal and Child Health

  • Social mobilization and IEC/CCC on the importance of Focused/Focused Prenatal Consultation, skilled delivery and Family Planning,
  • Administration of short-acting contraceptive methods (oral, injectable and barrier methods),
  • Distribution of non-medical contraceptives and pill renewal,
  • Council for the Adoption of MAMA and Other Methods, Naturals),
  • Visits of pregnant women, women delivered and newborns at home,
  • Referral of cases as required according to national reference and counter-reference guidelines.

Fighting HIV/AIDS/STIs

  • IEC/CCC,
  • Distribution of condoms,
  • Support for PHAs and EVOs,
  • Referral of people to HIV-positive testing and comprehensive care centres.

Community-based malnutrition

  • Case detection,
  • Treatment of severe uncomplicated and moderate cases,
  • Search/Relaunch of the lost,
  • Referral of cases as required according to national reference and counter-reference guidelines,
  • Tracking cases treated,
  • IEC/CCC.

Fighting malaria

  • Management of simple cases of malaria at home (PECADOM),
  • Detection and reference of serious cases according to national reference and counter-reference guidelines,
  • Promoting the use of IBD,
  • Search for lost sight (Unassiduous pregnant women for CPN/TPI),
  • IEC/CCC.

Emergency management (venomous bites, domestic and other accidents, etc.) and in disaster situations

  • IEC/CCC,
  • Taking care of cases with "first life-saving actions"
  • Reference to the need according to the national guidelines of reference and against reference.

Promoting blood donation

  • IEC/CCC on the importance of blood donation.

Fight against noncommunicable diseases (HTA, diabetes, hemoglobinopathies, cancers, gout,…)

  • IEC/CCC,
  • Case detection (search for people with risk factors),
  • Reference to the need according to the national guidelines of reference and against reference.

Post-abortion care

  • Reference to the need according to the national reference and counter-reference guidelines,
  • SPECIFIC IEC.

Management of gynecological conditions

  • SPECIFIC EC on gynecological conditions,
  • Refer women complaining of pelvic pain, vaginal discharge according to national reference guidelines and against reference.

Provides emergency obstetric and neonal care (UNS)

  • SONE-specific IEC and SONUB,
  • Make home visits,
  • Actively search for Missed Appointments,
  • Refer pregnant women, births and newborns to the USP as required according to national guidelines of reference and against reference,
  • Contribute to the review of maternal deaths.

Provides palliative care

  • Administration of prescribed products,
  • Nursing
  • Psychological care for family members.