Washtenaw County Community Mental Health (CMH) is the primary mental health services provider for more than 5,000 children and adults living with serious mental illness, developmental disabilities, or emotional disturbances in Washtenaw County, Michigan. To improve care coordination with healthcare and social services providers in the area, CMH and other mental health agencies and community par...

Fifteen area health services currently have formal structures for ongoing community participation. These structures are variously called health councils, health consumer networks, consumer and community health forums, and consultative committees. The role and activities undertaken vary and include local needs assessment, input to planning, and health promotion activities. The two area health se...

There has been considerable national debate recently about the future of community health services and of the community health doctors who work in them. Although much rhetoric has been exchanged, the progress of the debate both locally and nationally has been limited by the lack of data describing either the workload of these doctors or the outcome of their activities. Since community health do...

BACKGROUND This paper describes the development and implementation of an intervention to facilitate teamwork between general practice and outside allied and community health services and providers. METHODS A review of organizational theory and a qualitative study of 9 practices was used to design an intervention which was applied in four Divisions of General Practice and 26 urban practices. C...

BACKGROUND This paper explores how community participation can be used in designing rural primary healthcare services by describing a study of Scottish communities. Community participation is extolled in healthcare policy as useful in planning services and is understood as particularly relevant in rural settings, partly due to high social capital. Literature describes many community participati...

OBJECTIVES To reveal the equity of health workforce distribution in urban community health service (CHS), and to provide evidence for further development of community health service in China. METHODS A community-based, cross-sectional study was conducted in China from September to December 2011. In the study, 190 CHS centers were selected from 10 provinces of China via stratified multistage c...

OBJECTIVE To determine what community health service providers in rural southern Queensland considered were major issues affecting their efficacy. Results will inform the future research strategy of the Centre for Rural and Remote Area Health with the aim of addressing specific regional needs. DESIGN Interactive research workshops. SETTING Health providers and other key stakeholders. SUBJ...

There have been major policy changes impacting on community health services such as early discharge and hospital in the home initiatives. The effects of such policies on the client profile of community health services are not well known. Administrative data was used to explore a decade of changes in South Western Sydney Area Health Service community health services. There is a clear shift from ...

Introduction The Malawi Government designed a 12 year project as one of the policy instruments in achieving the Millennium Development Goals. The project is managed by the Malawi Social Action Fund (MASAF). MASAF was designed as a platform for the implementation of multi-sectoral community Driven Development (CDD) interventions in the areas have been placed in five Community Service Packages (C...