Proper planning and spending money wisely are necessary to meet the needs of a community. In this course you will be assessing the needs of a developing country in Asia, Africa, or Latin America. The Discussion Board Forums in this course have been crafted to help you process your assessment and construct your proposal paper. This course centers on capacity-building through the development of sustainable health programming to meet maternal and child health needs.
In this forum you will choose a rural village within a developing country to begin working. You are to become the expert on your chosen country, and you will provide general demographic and epidemiologic information about that country for your classmates to discuss. Begin with the World Health Organization (WHO), but do not stop there. From the data you are able to find, begin to assess the maternal and child health needs of a rural community. In this course you will not be addressing water and sanitation issues. You should recognize the impact of these issues, but you will only assess those problems directly responsible for maternal and child morbidity and mortality. (Water and sanitation related issues will be discussed when you take HLTH 624.)