Books and Manuals
A guide: Trachoma prevention through school health curriculum development
Publisher: WHO www.who.int
Published: 2006
Description: This guide describes a step-by-step methodology to develop a primary school curriculum to teach children about trachoma and what they can do to prevent the disease.
Link: PDF (520Kb)
Hanyane - A Village Struggles for Eye Health
Author: Erika Sutter, Victoria Francis, Allen Foster
Publisher: ICEH
Published: 2001
Description: This book deals with primary eye care in the context of community health and development and provides a practical guide to the diagnosis and management of common eye problems.
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Healthy Eyes Activity Book, 2nd Edition
Author: Victoria Francis and Boateng Wiafe
Publisher: ICEH
Published: 2007
Description: A health teaching book for primary schools, aiming to engage children in thinking about the health of their eyes, and playing their part in preventing blindness in their communities. The Health Eyes Activity Book contains class and home activities as well
as class discussion topics and health messages.
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Healthy Villages
Authors: Howard G with Bogh C, Goldstein G, Morgan J, Prüss A, Shaw R, Teuton J
Publisher: WHO www.who.int
Published: 2002
Date added: 2008-01-28
Description: This guide is intended to provide community leaders with information to assist them in implementing and sustaining a health villages project. It covers topics such as water and sanitation drainage, waste management, housing quality, domestic and community hygiene, and provision of health services, providing extensive source materials for adaptation to local needs and conditions.
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Reports and documents
Understanding the 'demand side' in service delivery definitions, frameworks and tools from the health sector
Author: Hilary Standing
Publisher: DfID www.dfidhealthrc.org
Published: March 2004
Date added: 2007-10-11
Description: This paper reviews the six main approaches to demand-side projects and programmes, including the need to change user behaviour to improve health outcomes.
Link: PDF (385Kb)
Libraries / Databases
Media/Materials Clearinghouse (M/MC)
Publisher:
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health/Center for Communication Programs
Description: An international resource for all those with an interest in health communication materials: pamphlets, posters, audiotapes, videos, training materials, job aids, electronic media and other media/materials designed to promote public health. They have a small amount of material relevant to community eye health.
Link: www.m-mc.org
Web sites
Health Communication Partnership
Publisher: John Hopkins School of Public Health et al.
Date added: 2007-10-11
Description: The Health Communication Partnership (HCP) aims to strengthen public health in the developing world through strategic communication programs. Through its strategic approach to communication, HCP and its partners work to create an environment that supports individuals, families, and communities to act positively for their own health and to advocate for and have access to quality services. This integrated communication approach to improving health is based on growing evidence that strategic health communication can influence behavior.
Link: www.hcpartnership.org/ |
