Community Health Education

Community Based Health Care is not a new concept in Ghana.  Ghana is a signatory to the Alma Alta declaration in 1978.  In the declaration countries from the developing world including Ghana accepted the concept of Primary health care.  The Primary Health care uses the strategy of volunteer community members to bring basic health care to their people.  

For Ghana, the strategy was to enable the country to provide Health for all by the year 2000.  It is nine years after the Alma Alta declaration.  The rural communities are still deprived of good care. 

The community Health Evangelism/Education is a community based care that seeks to provide basic services through the integration of the physical, spiritual, social, emotional, and economic health.  It is a holistic approach to health care.  This type of health care is in line with what Jesus Himself did when He walked the earth.  He healed the sick physically, (Luke 4:38, 40); emotionally John 4:4-26, Jesus and the Samaritan woman; He healed the paralytic spiritually Luke 5:20. Even Zacchaeus received the social acceptance. Luke 19:2-9.