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2. Clinical officer - Wikipedia

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   Duties and responsibilities include taking history, examining, diagnosing and treating patients' common ailments at an outpatient or inpatient health facility, implementing community healthcare activities in liaison with other health workers, guiding and counselling patients, clients and staff on health issues, sensitizing patients and clients ...

3. Community health worker - Wikipedia

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   Delivery of malaria treatment by a community health worker in Djénébougou, Mali. A community health worker (CHW) is a member of a community who provides basic health and medical care within their community, and is capable of providing preventive, promotional and rehabilitation care to that community, typically without formal education equal to that of a nurse, CHO, or doctor.

4. Community health agent - Wikipedia

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   A public health team vaccinating children for polio at Rocinha, a favela in Rio de Janeiro, 2001 (Source: CDC). Community health agent (agente comunitário de saúde or ACS, in Portuguese language) is the title of a specific lay health care worker developed in Brazil by way of PACS (Program of Community Health Workers) in 1991 as part of the construction of the Brazilian Unified Health System ...

5. Public health nursing - Wikipedia

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   Public health nursing, also known as community health nursing is a nursing specialty focused on public health.The term was coined by Lillian Wald of the Henry Street Settlement, or, Public health nurses (PHNs) or community health nurses "integrate community involvement and knowledge about the entire population with personal, clinical understandings of the health and illness experiences of ...

6. Community health - Wikipedia

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   Community health volunteers are members of a local community who have experience and training on the health problems prevalent in their community and care services available, in order to identify and link those in need with local providers. Community health volunteers may be referred to by different titles depending on their local health system ...

7. Liaison officer - Wikipedia

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   Naval liaison officers from Malaysia and Thailand coordinate efforts. A liaison officer is a person who liaises between two or more organizations to communicate and coordinate their activities on a matter of mutual concern. Generally, liaison officers are used for achieving the best utilization of resources, or employment of services of one ...

8. Health extension officer - Wikipedia

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   Health extension officers or health extension workers (HEWs), are a category of health care providers found in some countries including Papua New Guinea and Ethiopia. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] They usually work in health centres in rural and medically underserved areas, where they see and treat patients and provide a range of community health services.

9. Community emergency response team - Wikipedia

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   Many sponsoring agencies employ a full-time community-service person as liaison to the CERT members. In some communities, the liaison is a volunteer and CERT member. As people are trained and agree to join the community emergency response effort, a CERT is formed. Initial efforts may result in a team with only a few members from across the ...