The Community Health Program provide integrated care to the vulnerable population making special emphasis on the rural area, understanding as integrated care seeks, the set of norms, systems, instruments that, operating in a coherent and articulated way, guarantee continuous and quality care, aimed at promotion, prevention , recovery and rehabilitation of health for individuals, families and communities.
It is focused on the person and applies health actions to the needs of the people in the context of family and community and not specific damages or diseases. Part of the respect for the dignity and rights of the person, the interests and preferences of her and counting on her participation.
With actions in community health, Guatemalan Red Cross seeks to help reduce morbidity and mortality rates in vulnerable populations in the country, with emphasis on rural areas, through targeted prevention and health promotion actions, providing support to social structures in the communities to carry out actions aimed at achieving two results: 1) That individuals and families increase their knowledge and improve their individual and family practices in health and 2) That the communities participate actively and in an organized way to improve their health conditions.
According to the epidemiological profile of the country, the Community Health Program focuses its efforts primarily on thematic axes, which it addresses through the methodologies of the Red Cross and Red Crescent International Federation of National Societies, such as “Vulnerability Analysis and Capacities ”(AVC*),“ Community Health and First Aid (SPAC*) ”and“ Participatory Transformation Methodology for Hygiene and Sanitation (PHAST*) “.
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