Health mediator

Community health workers provide health education, referral to health professionals, follow-up care after hospital discharge, and home visits to serve specific areas. They provide support and assistance to individuals and families in navigating the health care and social services system.

• providing information to families and communities on a range of health issues such as nutrition, hygiene, care of newborns and young children, immunisation, family planning, risk factors and prevention of infectious diseases, poisoning, domestic violence and others;
• making home visits to provide information and assist in accessing health, social and other services;
• visiting the homes of families who do not attend health facilities for regular check-ups, such as pregnancy monitoring and child care;
• distributing medicines for the prevention and treatment of endemic disease, malaria, pneumonia, diarrhoea and other diseases, and instructing families and communities on the use of these medicines;
• conducting outreach among population groups that do not attend health facilities to provide information and medicines for the prevention of high-risk diseases such as HIV/AIDS;
• collecting data from households and population groups that do not attend health facilities to monitor their health status in accordance with health regulations.
• Examples of occupations in this unit group:
• Health mediator