DIPLOMA IN COMMUNITY HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT

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    CHALLENGES FACING COMMUNITY HEALTH EDUCATION PROGRAMS IN URBAN AREAS A CASE STUDY OF LANGATA CONSTITUENCY
    (Management University of Africa, 2024-06) QURESHA ALI ABDILLE
    Langata Constituency is the intended site of this research of the difficulties encountered by urban community health education initiatives. The study's overarching goal is to learn what makes community health education programs in cities fail, and its more narrowly focused goals include: Langata Constituency community health education program outcomes as a function of socioeconomic level. Looking at how health literacy affects the success of health education programs in the community. Finding out how the presence of healthcare facilities in the Langata Constituency affects the state of community health education initiatives. In the urban Langata Constituency, we look at how infrastructure and resources help or hurt community health education programs. Using a basic random selection procedure, 112 respondents (representing 10% of the population) were chosen from a target population of 1,124 homes. In order to gather data, research assistants distributed Liker scale questionnaires. The research tools were fine-tuned in a pilot study with 12 respondents before the main investigation. In order to analyze the data, which mostly made use of descriptive statistics like percentages and frequencies, the data had to be coded and entered into Excel. The use of tables, bar graphs, and pie charts to display data improved the analysis and allowed for a more thorough understanding of the results. By taking this tack, we were able to learn everything we could about the difficulties urban community health education programs encounter, which aided lawmakers, medical professionals, and community members in their quest to find solutions and make health education programs work better everywhere. The research looked at the difficulties of urban community health education programs and found that the participants were very different in terms of gender, age, education level, and duration of residence in Langata Constituency, among other demographic variables. Disparities in program accessibility and efficacy were highlighted by socioeconomic status perceptions, whereas health literacy levels affected program understanding and participation. Transportation issues limited access to healthcare facilities, which in turn affected program participation. The effects on program delivery of infrastructure quality and allocation of resources were not uniform. The research found that in order for community health education to be successful in urban settings, it is important to address socioeconomic gaps, improve health literacy, make healthcare more accessible, and optimize infrastructure. Improvements to healthcare access, culturally relevant health education materials, infrastructural upgrades, and individualized treatments for people from different socioeconomic backgrounds are all on the list of suggestions. To improve health education equality, future research should focus on the following: long-term program effects; comparative studies across urban contexts; creative intervention techniques; and intersectional analyses.