Heath Foundation of Ghana: Programmes

Health Foundation of Ghana's efforts are focused on approaches that stress on individual and group responsibility, ideas and action, and the optimisation of the use of locally available resources. Its programmes rely heavily on community consultation and participation. Our programmes are:
1. PROBLEM SOLVING FOR BETTER HEALTH (PSBH) PROGRAMME When people are well informed, motivated and made aware of their potential, they take action to improve their lot. The Problem Solving for Better Health (PSBH) programme is designed to educate and empower communities and groups to identify their health problems and take action for better health. Community responsibility is the key to any improvement that can be made in the health status and development of the said community.
	Strategy: To impart to participants strategic knowledge of the development of small-scale problem solving projects within its communities using local resources for the benefit of the wider community. The PSBH programme will encourage participants to formulate, plan, implement and evaluate their own solutions to self identified problems.
	Target group: Frontline health workers and energetic, committed community members, opinion leaders, traditional leaders, politicians, government agencies, non-governmental organisations and religious bodies.
	Activities: PSBH workshops, follow-up workshops, project monitoring, and evaluation.
	PSBH workshops held: AWAAE Initiative Workshop. BIOSSA Workshop. Tamale Initiative Workshop. Cape Coast Initiative Workshop - Nkanfoa Chapter. GRASAG PSBH Workshop. NURSES PSBH Workshop - Greater Accra. Workshop for Directors of Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly. Training of Trainers Workshop for Travel and Tourism, Cape Coast. Kumasi initiative Workshop for Asokwa Sub Metro Chapter.
2. COMMUNICATION FOR BETTER HEALTH (CBH) PROGRAMME Access to relevant health information directly impacts on the health delivery system of a country. It is on this basis that the Foundation initiated its CBH programme to improve accessibility to that all important resource "Health Information'' This programme aims to bring useful health information to the doorstep of health care workers (HCW) and every Ghanaian in order that the general public is well informed on health issues. Preventive as opposed to curative healthcare practices are advocated for, with the hope that they would assist in lowering the financial burden on the government with respect to the health sector and improve the health status of all. An important part of this programme is awareness creation on a range of health issues most importantly HIV/AIDS.
	Strategy: Production of a quarterly health publication called "Ghana Health Digest", Educating and providing accurate health information through seminars, workshops, public lectures, TV and radio programs.
	Target group: Doctors, nurses, pharmacists, and other health care workers, the youth, students of first, second and third cycle institutions, parliamentarians, policy makers and the general public.
	Activities: Dissemination of relevant current health information via Ghana Health Digest via Postal System to rural and urban recepients. TV and Radio programmes across the country. Lectures to target audiences.
3. BURULI ULCER SUPPORT AND PHENYTOIN RESEARCH Phenytoin is a drug with diverse properties. The Foundation encourages and promotes research into the various uses and supports District Health Management teams to utilise it to relieve the suffering of Buruli Ulcer victims.
	Strategy: Advocating the research into the various, and often under-utilized clinical applications of phenytoin, focusing on its usage in the healing of buruli ulcer. The aim is to ascertain that its benefits are accessible to people everywhere. Research has found it to have wound healing properties and also some effectiveness in treating depression. The dissemination of available information on its multiple clinical uses and the current health projects involving phenytoin, such as its effects on violence, stress, substance abuse, and wound healing.
	Target group: Medical professionals, health workers, District Health Management teams and victims of buruli ulcer, mental health patients and trauma patients.
	Activities: Project monitoring, seminars, fundraising activities, and site visits.
4. HIV/AIDS PROGRAM

5. ICT IN HEALTH PROGRAM

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