Modalities
- Strengthen the delivery of community–based health / nutrition services and mechanisms to generate demand and improve the availability, affordability and quality of services for women and young children.
- Strengthen linkages with social protection programmes to reduce financial barriers where they exist, to accessing quality health services at community and household level.
- Site planning and management in refugee/IDP settings.
Conditions and considerations
- Where displaced population must be sheltered in temporary settlements or camps, the selection and management of sites must be well planned to avoid risk factors for communicable disease transmission, such as overcrowding, poor hygiene, vector breeding sites and lack of adequate shelter. Such conditions favour the transmission of diseases that are associated with undernutrition.
- Health education and community participation in interventions can play a key role in communicable disease prevention and control.
- In refugee/IDP settings health surveillance is important for the ongoing systematic collection, analysis and interpretation of health data in order to plan, implement and evaluate public health interventions. In settled populations this data is often available through health systems.