Community Diagnosis: The Community Core and Subsystems, Assessment, Analysis and the Intervention Action Plan

Lesson 9 of the epidemiology unit in the KMTC Clinical Medicine department's Community Health III module, whose outcome is that the learner can carry out a community diagnosis. A community is taken as a core of history, demographics, vital statistics and shared values ringed by eight subsystems - environment, education, safety and transport, politics, health services, communication, economy and recreation - and the lesson works through the assessment, the analysis and prioritising of the findings and the intervention action plan built from them, with the local problems of pulmonary tuberculosis, malaria, maternal mortality, poor housing, low BMI and MUAC, high birth rate, low use of maternal health services, substance abuse, school dropout and teenage pregnancy. Carey Francis Okinda.