Dear friends and colleagues with an interest in primary health care and community health:
I am pleased to be able to share with you a few items of possible interest. [*see note below]
1. We now have a website specifically devoted to the census-based, impact-oriented (CBIO) approach, a holistic/integrated approach to working with communities to help them improve their health. I have been involved with this approach for four decades now and I increasingly believe that awareness about CBIO principles and experience in implementing them hold promise for strengthening health programs throughout the world, even in developed countries. You can reach it here<http://www.cbioglobalhealth.com/>.
2. On this same website are recordings of a 2 and ½ day on-site and virtual CBIO workshop I led last September that was attended by 75 people from 23 countries. This is not only in English but also in Spanish and French! You can access this directly at: https://www.cbioglobalhealth.com/events.
3. I am also pleased to be able to share a just-published contribution to the Oxford Research Encyclopedia entitled "The Investment Case for Strengthening Primary Healthcare and Community Health Worker Programs in Low- and Lower-Middle- Income Countries." I wrote this in collaboration with Jeffrey Sachs, University Professor at Columbia University, Director of its Center for Sustainable Development, and passionate advocate for community health workers. This publication is the culmination of a paper I gave 10 years ago at a conference of ministers of finance in sub-Saharan Africa. It is quite extensive - 58 pages long in fact. It provides an in-depth perspective on the return on investment in PHC and in community-based PHC particularly.
4. In a previous email I mentioned the remarkable book published in 2023 highlighting Bangladesh's progress in improving the health of its people -- 50 years of Bangladesh: Advances in Health<https://www.amazon.ca/50-years-Bangladesh-Advances-Health/dp/9845064043> and the article <https://www.ghspjournal.org/content/12/1/e2300419> that I wrote with Mushtaque arising from the keynote address that I gave at the book launch in Bangladesh one year ago. I am pleased to provide you here<https://uncch.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=4552b027-8... with a link to the address that Mushtaque gave at the University of North Carolina School of Public Health in February of this year. Attached is a copy of the PowerPoint that Mushtaque used for his presentation.
5. A useful tool has recently been released by the program staff at Catholic Medical Mission Board entitled "Community Health Systems Strengthening Assessment Tool and Process Guide." This is attached. This was produced by the CMMB program staff, led by Yombo Tankoano and Julia King.
6. Finally, attached is a recent essay from the New York Times highlighting the critical role of communities and community health workers in the final stage of the polio eradication campaign and the eagerness of CHWs in taking on the next health challenge!
Feel free to share this email and these resources with anyone else or with any relevant listserve you may have access to.
If you come across any information that others might be interested in learning about, don't hesitate to pass it on to me.
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Warm regards,
Henry
Henry B. Perry, MD, PhD, MPH
Senior Associate, Health Systems Program
Department of International Health
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Baltimore, MD, USA 21205
Hperry2@jhu.edu<mailto:Hperry2@jhu.edu>; 443-797-5202
HIFA profile: Henry Perry is a Senior Scientist at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, USA. Professional interests: Community health and primary health care. hperry2 AT jhu.edu
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