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Community Health Agent: Training Guide

Online
1.5-3 hours
Free

Course Content

Explore the role of a community health agent and improve your community's health with this free online course. Community health workers (CHWs) liaise between health service providers and the community. In this course, we’ll teach you about community and health and the duties and core competencies of a CHW. You’ll learn to identify health problems and develop programs to promote health, thereby preventing diseases and disabilities in any community. Explore the legality of community health care and how to solve nutritional problems.

Course Details

CollegeAlison
Course ID188715
Course TypeOnline Learning
Course QualificationCPD Certificate
Course Duration1.5-3 hours
Course FeeFree
Entry RequirementsLike all courses on the Alison Free Learning platform this is a free, CPD-accredited course. A Graduate can choose to buy a certificate or diploma upon successful completion of a course, but this is not required or necessary.

At Alison we believe that free education, more than anything, has the power to break through boundaries and transform lives.

Alison is the world’s largest free online empowerment platform for education and skills training, offering over 5000 CPD accredited courses and a range of impactful career development tools. It is a for-profit social enterprise dedicated to making it possible for anyone, to study anything, anywhere, at any time, for free online, at any subject level. Through our mission, we are a catalyst for positive social change, creating opportunity, prosperity, and equality for everyone.
Career PathIn This Free Course, You Will Learn How To
• Define the duties and competencies of community health workers (CHWs) and agents
• Identify the legal and consent-related issues of community health professionals
• Discuss the basic concept of community health
• State the framework for global community health nursing
• Recognise the different mental health nursing practices
• Describe the procedure of identification, management and prevention of protein-energy deficiencies in children
• Recall the procedures followed in solving nutritional problems in the community
Course Code4940

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