Community Health Nursing I B.Sc. Nursing First Year Kathmandu University

2. Community Resources
UNIT 7
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3. Resources:
Anything used for effective running of program
is resources. Resources are needed to meet
the health needs of community. Assessment
of the available resources there proper
allocation of effective utilization is important
for providing effective health care services.
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4. Contd.
These resources are vital to perform and
successful completion of target activities task
or performance. The resources are man,
money, material, market, time, community
resources, local groups, national and
international organization, multilateral and
bilateral organization etc.
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5. Contd.
Resources are all the available means for
accomplishing a task, including staff and
budget as well as physical space and
equipments.
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6. Community Resources:
Community resources are defined as any type of
resources which are utilized in health care
management system- community resources
are needed to meet vast health needs of a
community.
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7. Contd.
For program planning, it is important to identify
the resources needed as well as the resources
available. As assessment of the available
resources, their proper allocation and
efficient utilization are important
consideration for providing efficient health
care services.
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8. Community resources for providing
health care are:
⮚Human resources
⮚Financial resources
⮚Materials
⮚Time
⮚Place/ Market
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9. Health Resources :
Health centers provide high quality preventive
and primary health care, even if you have no
insurance.
Health center program supports medical, oral
and behavioral health services to uninsured
and underinsured individuals through a
nationwide network of community based
clinics and mobile medical vans.
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10. Contd.
By bringing comprehensive primary and
preventive health care services to inner-city
and rural communities that would work for
the health of their communities and relieve
pressure on overburdened hospital
emergency rooms.
The agency also recruits doctors, nurses,
dentists and others to work in areas with too
few health care professionals.
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12. Human Resources:
The term human resources include both
professional and auxiliary health personal
who are needed to provide the healthcare.
Human resources or manpower requirements of
a country based on health needs and
demands of the population and desired
outputs.
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13. Contd.
There is also misdistribution of human
resources between rural and urban area in
health care system.
In addition national health needs based on the
health situation and health problems.
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15. Human Resources of Community:
1. Family
2. Mother’s group
3. FCHV (Female community health volunteer)
4. Women’s organization
5. Clubs, Youth groups
6. NGOs, INGOs
7. Social workers
8. Formal informal community leaders
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16. 9. Red cross society
10. Traditional healers
11. Religious leaders
12. School Teacher
13. Students
14. Animal husbandry
15. Agricultures
16. Forestry
17. Water Supply
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17. New policy of government is to upgrading
health facilities such as sub-health post to
health post, health post to PHC, and PHC to
district hospital to provide equal and
essential health services to all.
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19. Financial Resources (Money):
Money is an important resource for providing
health services to achieve health for all.
Scarcity of money affects all parts of the
health delivery system.
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20. Contd.
WHO has set a goal the expenditure of 5% of
each country’s GNP on health care since
money and materials are always scare
resources they must be put to the most
effective use.
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21. Materials:
Material is another important resource for
providing health services. Land donation to
build health infrastructure (building), bricks,
sand, bamboos, stones, soils, space, chair,
benches, pure drinking water etc are
materials which are used for allocation of
resources in the field of community.
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22. Time:
Time is money. Someone said it is an important
dimension of health care services. Proper use
of resources or manpower is also an
important times factor.
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23. Contd.
Time donation: labors, make the health facilities
within the time framework.
In summary resources are needed to meet the
many health needs of a community. Every
community people from grass root level to
higher levels should utilize every community
resources properly in manageable way for
community development.
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24. Place and Market:
Place and market is another important resource
for health service. Place is infrastructure for
the health service.
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25. Local Community Resources:
✔Family
✔Mother’s group
✔TBA
✔Traditional
healers
✔FCHV
✔CBOs
✔NGOs
✔Local clubs
✔School and school
teachers
✔Community leaders-VDC
Chairman and others
✔Govt. offices and non
Govt. offices
✔Political leaders
✔Health Facilities and
other facilities
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26. END

27. REFERENCE
● Pahari. R.D. Community Health Nursing, Part I,
1st Edition, 2019.
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