Community Health Information Cards - Taking Action for our Health

Published by the Respond Project, this set of behaviour change communication cards was developed to accompany the related Guide to Action for Community Mobilisation and Empowerment Focused on Postabortion Complications: Facilitator’s Manual. The cards are designed for use by community health workers (CHWs) to generate community dialogue and increase knowledge of family planning and post abortion care (PAC), while encouraging positive health-seeking behaviour. CHWs can use the cards to:

• share health information with the community;
• lead discussions about important health issues to explore why they happen, and what the community can do about them;
• encourage community members to plan, carry out, monitor, and evaluate action plans that try to solve health issues using existing resources; and
• help refer community members to appropriate resources, such as health workers and health care facilities.