The weakness of community level tuberculosis (TB) services is a major concern for TB health promotion in Indonesia. These weaknesses are associated with a low level of awareness and knowledge and a high level of TB stigma in the community subsequently causing a low TB case detection rate (CDR). This book presents the role that community health literacy an important part in increasing the number of tuberculosis (TB) case findings, case holdings, and success rate by supervising and mentoring the cadres and community leaders. It shows how TB case detection rate improved through an understanding of the community literacy of health and the engage of community empowerment. This book is primarily addressed to health programmer, TB programmer, public health researchers, stake holders, who play a very important role in the control of TB or other diseases in the community. There are best practices how to expand community-based models to achieve universal access to TB testing and treatment. An understanding of community health literacy, as one of the basic factors that influence mobilizing and empowering the community to prevent, detect, and treat TB, MDR-TB, and TB-HIV.

The University of Community Health, Magway (UCH) , pronounced [t á màjé t k ò (m wé)]) is a public university located in Magway, Myanmar. The university offers a four-year Bachelor of Community Health (B.Comm.H.) degree program. The graduates are allowed to practice as health assistants, many of whom are the main providers of primary health care in rural Myanmar where access to regular physicians is difficult.

The shortage of well-trained health workers is a challenge to health systems around the world, particularly in low-and-middle-income countries. One method of helping to address this multifaceted crisis is by shifting certain tasks to community members with lower qualifications to provide basic health services to their community. Volunteer community health workers (vCHWs) in Ethiopia, Health Development Army (HDA), are currently providing preventive and promotive services such as immunization, family planning, prenatal and postnatal care, birth preparedness and complication readiness, maternal, infant, and young child nutrition, personal hygiene, and home management and environmental sanitation. To ensure the continuity and sustainability of volunteer community health programs, assessment of factors contributing to the motivation of vCHWs and recognizing their contribution to the health of the community are critical.

The shortage of well-trained health workers is a challenge to health systems around the world, particularly in low-and-middle-income countries. One method of helping to address this multifaceted crisis is by shifting certain tasks to community members with lower qualifications to provide basic health services to their community. Volunteer community health workers (vCHWs) in Ethiopia, Health Development Army (HDA), are currently providing preventive and promotive services such as immunization, family planning, prenatal and postnatal care, birth preparedness and complication readiness, maternal, infant, and young child nutrition, personal hygiene, and home management and environmental sanitation. To ensure the continuity and sustainability of volunteer community health programs, assessment of factors contributing to the motivation of vCHWs and recognizing their contribution to the health of the community are critical.

This progressive resource brings the innovative power of narrative medicine to the forefront of community public health care. Chapters describe community involvement across a continuum of control, from health consultants describing problems and suggesting solutions to health committees designing programs and evaluating results. Narrative strategies to this end, including authentic dialogue and community mapping, are examined in the context of public health and fleshed out with examples of different levels of participation by community members. From the respectful collaboration modeled here, the principles of community public health care can potentially expand beyond the immediate community into other social domains on a greater scale.Included in the coverage:· Narratives, local knowledge, and world entry.· Community and narratives.· What is dialogue?· Storylines, causes, and locus of interventions.· Community mapping tells a story.· The politics of storytelling.Narrative Medicine and Community-Based Health Care and Planning gives health psychologists, sociologists, social workers, and public health administrators realistic practical insights for tapping into the unique resources communities and clients have to offer. This is the next step in the evolution of public health, toward large-scale improvements in care delivery, access to and relevance of services, and patient and community outcomes.

This progressive resource brings the innovative power of narrative medicine to the forefront of community public health care. Chapters describe community involvement across a continuum of control, from health consultants describing problems and suggesting solutions to health committees designing programs and evaluating results. Narrative strategies to this end, including authentic dialogue and community mapping, are examined in the context of public health and fleshed out with examples of different levels of participation by community members. From the respectful collaboration modeled here, the principles of community public health care can potentially expand beyond the immediate community into other social domains on a greater scale.Included in the coverage:· Narratives, local knowledge, and world entry.· Community and narratives.· What is dialogue?· Storylines, causes, and locus of interventions.· Community mapping tells a story.· The politics of storytelling.Narrative Medicine and Community-Based Health Care and Planning gives health psychologists, sociologists, social workers, and public health administrators realistic practical insights for tapping into the unique resources communities and clients have to offer. This is the next step in the evolution of public health, toward large-scale improvements in care delivery, access to and relevance of services, and patient and community outcomes.

Community health nursing is one of the two broadest fields of nursing practice in terms of setting, the other one being hospital-based nursing. This field of nursing is coined from a combination of three words, community, health, and nursing. In this specialization, the community is the principal client, which is usually defined as a group, population, or cluster of people with at least common characteristic such as geographic location, occupation, ethnicity, or housing condition. As defined by the World Health Organization, it is determined by geographical boundaries and common values and interests. In connection, health, as defined by the World Health Organization, is a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being, not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. It is basically the optimum level of the functioning of individuals, families, and communities as affected by factors in the ecosystem. Nursing, on the other hand, is a caring profession rendered and provided by a professional nurse with the characteristics of humanistic, comprehensive, individualized, holistic, skillful, efficient, patient-focused, and quality high standard of care.

Community health nursing is one of the two broadest fields of nursing practice in terms of setting, the other one being hospital-based nursing. This field of nursing is coined from a combination of three words, community, health, and nursing. In this specialization, the community is the principal client, which is usually defined as a group, population, or cluster of people with at least common characteristic such as geographic location, occupation, ethnicity, or housing condition. As defined by the World Health Organization, it is determined by geographical boundaries and common values and interests. In connection, health, as defined by the World Health Organization, is a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being, not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. It is basically the optimum level of the functioning of individuals, families, and communities as affected by factors in the ecosystem. Nursing, on the other hand, is a caring profession rendered and provided by a professional nurse with the characteristics of humanistic, comprehensive, individualized, holistic, skillful, efficient, patient-focused, and quality high standard of care.

This book provides a much-needed account of informal community-based approaches to working with mental distress. It starts from the premise that contemporary mainstream psychiatry and psychology struggle to capture how distress results from complex embodied arrays of social experiences that are embedded within specific historical, cultural, political and economic settings. The authors challenge mainstream understandings of mental health that position a naive public in need of mental health literacy. Instead it is clear that a considerable amount of invaluable mental distress work is undertaken in spaces in our communities that are not understood as mental health treatments. This book represents one of the first attempts to position these kinds of spaces at the center of how we understand and address problems of mental distress and suffering. The chapters draw on case studies from the UK and abroad to point toward an exciting new paradigm based on informal community and socially oriented approaches to mental health. Written in an unusually accessible and engaging style, this book will appeal to social science students, academics, practitioners and policy makers interested in community and social approaches to mental health.