Health and Community Services V. 2 A Practical Manual for Health and Community Workers

This self-teaching manual and its companion volume sets out all the steps involved in carrying out surveys which are the bedrock of all community health and social services programmes. This is a presentation demonstrating the practical procedures for collecting information about people and communities. The "why" and the "how" of each step is carefully explained, so that surveys need no longer remain the exclusive tool of the specialist.;Detailed consideration is given to when surveys are necessary, to finding, assessing and incorporating already information available, to basic sampling procedures, questionnaires and pro-forma construction, to the training and supervision of interviewers, to the analysis and presentation of survey data and to writing and publishing survey reports. The manuals contain many interview and survey forms which readers can adapt to their own work. The material was originally published by the International Epidemiological Association and the World Health Organization, but this edition is revised and updated.