To prevent occurrence of infectious disease?
Primary prevention
This person is key person in community assessment
PH Nurse
Direct discussion with community members
Informant interview
Increase early detection through screening
Secondary prevention.
Occupation, education, crime rate
Social factors
Open meeting
Community forum
What is DOT
Direct observation therapy
Ethnohistory, values, customs
Cultural factors
Use of existing data
Secondary data
Monitor treatment compliance,
Tertiary prevention
Geography, climate, vectors and pollutants
Environmental factors
A limitation of this data collection could be bias
Participant observation
Protection due to the immunity of most community members making exposure unlikely
Herd immunity
Community assessment begins with this
Defining the community to be studied
Strength of this data collection is it provides a descr overview of community
Windshield survey