Table 4 Ranked priority health issues and interventions according to health providers and consumers for both target districts combined
Priority health issues according to providers | Priority health issues according to community |
|---|---|
1. Malaria | 1. Measles |
2. Diarrhoeal diseases | 2. Malaria |
3. Pneumonia | 3. Lack of safe water |
4. Tuberculosis | 4. Malnutrition |
5. HIV/AIDS | 5. Transport |
6. Measles | 6. Long distances to health centres |
7. Malnutrition | 7. Vaccine stock outs |
8. Schistosomiasis | 8. Lack of family planning services |
9. Accidents | 9. Poor sanitation |
10. Poverty | |
11. Lack of electricity | |
12. Unwillingness of community health workers to work outside working hours | |
13. Insufficient health care personnel | |
14. Lower quality of hospital care | |
15. Lack of access to free ITN | |
| Â | 16. Absence of NGOs |
Priority health interventions according to providers | Priority health interventions according to community |
1. Prevention and treatment of vaccine preventable diseases. | 1. Provision of ITN to under five children and antenatal care to women |
2. Malaria prevention and treatment – ITN promotion, IPT and case management. | 2. Home case management of malaria |
3. Reproductive health interventions – including safe motherhood initiatives, essential obstetric care and PMTCT. | 3. HTC and PMTCT |
4. Prevention, control and treatment of tuberculosis and related complications. | 4. Provision of food supplements to malnourished children and mothers |
5. Prevention and treatment of schistosomiasis and related complications. | |
6. Management of acute respiratory infections and related complications. | |
7. Prevention, treatment and care for acute diarrhoeal diseases including cholera. | |
8. Prevention and management of HIV/AIDS, sexually transmitted Infections and related complications including HTC and the provision of ARVT. | |
9. Prevention and management of malnutrition, nutrition deficiencies- (iodine, vitamin A, iron) and related complications, especially those associated with HIV/AIDS. | |
10. Management of eye, ear and skin infections and related complications. | |
11. Treatment of common injuries – including emergency care for accidents and trauma and their complications. |  |