Community-managed health: strengthening health systems towards resilient communities

According to the International Institute of Rural Reconstruction (IIRR), health, especially of the poor, needs to be protected, promoted and improved. It is the foundation of individual security and therefore is everyone’s responsibility. It cannot be addressed in isolation from other poverty issues. It calls for integrated approaches that promote peoples’ participation in the management of their own health.

With most health initiatives focusing only on basic health services and with climate change posing significant costs to public health and well being, addressing health issues for the poor will become more complex in the future. Community managed health proposes a framework where people take charge of their own health.

The community should be able to carry out tasks and responsibilities to strengthen health systems for improved community readiness to respond and manage health issues and access the resources they need to sustain health interventions, most especially when hazard strikes.

To create a good learning environment, organizers deem it necessary to have at least 8 participants to conduct the course. IIRR reserves the right to cancel the course, one month before its schedule. This will be immediately conveyed to the applicants. Course fees will be refunded in full.