Community Assessment

The goal of this introductory text is to assist the reader in identifying causes of ill health in communities, so as to provide more effective and less costly health interventions. Topics explored include basic demographics, water and sanitation, food preparation and nutrition, community resources, health and endemic diseases, and an introduction to the growing field of Rapid Epidemiological Assessment.

Douglas Stockman has spent most of his career working in Africa where he founded the Organization for West African Health (OWAH), a non-profit organization designed to support small grassroots health programmes in West Africa. He is currently a faculty member in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Rochester USA where he has created an International Health Education Track and has made care of refugees a priority.