Community health support

Community Health Services commonly include community nursing services, health visiting, physiotherapy, and speech and language therapy but in some areas also incorporate more specialist services or generic services targeted at particular groups within the population such as the homeless or those in prison.

How can a health worker help a community?

Some organizations operate mobile and pop-up clinics that offer disease prevention programs within the community.
To extend public education into all aspects of the community, health workers will often partner with local political systems, social work agencies, and schools.

What is a community health provider?

The goal of a community health provider is to offer comprehensive services that grant communities direct and immediate access to essential resources, including:

medical

dental

pharmacy

and mental health care.

What are community health services?

Community health services cover an extensive and diverse range of activities and are difficult to define

Services are delivered in a wide range of settings – including in people’s own homes as well as in community clinics, community centres and schools – so are less visible than services delivered in hospitals and GP surgeries

Why are community health providers important?

They keep people well at home and in community settings close to home, and support people to live independently

Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, community health providers have stepped up and shown their value, flexibility and resilience in the face of unprecedented challenges

Gathering of people discussing a shared burden

In a support group, members provide each other with various types of help, usually nonprofessional and nonmaterial, for a particular shared, usually burdensome, characteristic.
Members with the same issues can come together for sharing coping strategies, to feel more empowered and for a sense of community.
The help may take the form of providing and evaluating relevant information, relating personal experiences, listening to and accepting others' experiences, providing sympathetic understanding and establishing social networks.
A support group may also work to inform the public or engage in advocacy.