Community Care

Research Proposal

Effective Community Care the only Sustainable Solution to Chronic Health Problems

Student 's Name

Course Code , Semester , Year

Tutor

15 June , 2009

Background

Health as a factor plays a critical role in defining the quality of life that can be attained by any community (Egan Kadushin 2007 . Chronic health complications reduce the level of productivity that individuals can attain . Chronic health complications are quite costly to manage and their occurrence has been cited as being a factor that contributes to the high cost in healthcare

management that is witnessed across societies . Healthcare management as a field is concerned with devising the most effective approach to management of health conditions Provision of resources and monitoring systems that have been put in place to determine their accuracy has also been cited as a factor that contributes to the high costs witnessed in healthcare management . As a result community based intervention systems have come up as some of the most effective approaches to management of medical challenges (Hunt 2008 . The level of efficiency attained by community based approaches has been cited as being a result of their closeness to the society Preventive health and address of health issues that are prevalent in a given community have been cited as being effectively carried out if the model used is community based

Problem Statement

There has been progressive increase in allocation to healthcare by the central government in Saudi Arabia (MoH 2009b . The dependence of efficient provision of healthcare services on health is...