2. COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
BLOCK
• In India, a Community development block (CD block) or
simply Block is a sub-division of Tehsil, administratively earmarked
for planning and development. The area is administered by a Block
Development Officer (BDO), supported by several technical
specialists and village-level workers.A community development block
covers several gram panchayats, the local administrative units at the
village level.
3. CATEGORY: COMMUNITY
DEVELOPMENT BLOCKS IN INDIA
• This category has the following 8 subcategories, out of 8 total.
B
• Community development blocks in Bihar (12 C, 5 P
H
• Community development blocks in Haryana (1 P)
J
• Community development blocks in Jharkhand (23 C, 49 P)
M
• Mandals in Andhra Pradesh (1 C, 44 P)
• Mandals in Telangana (26 C, 9 P)
4. O
• Community development blocks in Odisha (2 P)
R
• Revenue blocks of Tamil Nadu (34 C
W
• Community development blocks in West Bengal (22 C, 2 P)
5. PRIMARY HEALTH CENTER
• Primary Health Centre (PHCs), sometimes referred to as public health
centres, are state-owned rural and urban health care facilities in India.
They are essentially single-physician clinics usually with facilities for
minor surgeries. They are part of the government-funded public health
system in India and are the most basic units of this system. As on 31
March 2019 there are 30,045 PHCs in India in which 24,855 are
located on rural areas and 5,190 are on urban areas. Suggest of PHC is
given by Bhore committee in 1946.
6. OBJECTIVES OF PHC
• To increase the programs and services that affect the healthy growth
and development of children and youth.
• To boost participation of the community with government and
community sectors to improve the health of their community.
• To develop community satisfaction with the primary health care
system.
• To support and advocate for healthy public policy within all sectors
and levels of government.
• To support and encourage the implementation of provincial public
health policies and direction.
7. PHC PROGRAMMES
Primary Health Centres programmes are listed below:
• Provision of medical care
• Maternal-child health including family planning
• Safe water supply and basic sanitation
• Prevention and control of locally endemic diseases
• Collection and reporting of vital statistics
• Education about health
• National health programmes, as relevant
• Referral services
• Training of health guides, health workers, local dais and health assistants
• Basic laboratory workers
• First PHC established in 1952.
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10. INTER-RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK AND
PHC
• Manpower will be provided by Community development Block.
• Non communicable diseases the community development Block will
supply medicine at the door step.
• Vector borne diseases prevention measures also taken care by
community development office
• Disaster management measures will be done by Community
development Block and also by PHC members
• Community health programmes will be conducted and paplets will be
given to PHC by Block development office
• In any emergency situation they will provide manpower for the
sucessful empowerment of PHC