Community Health Program Offered at Kenya Institute of Social Work and Community Development

This Community Health programme equips students with knowledge, skills and attitudes that will enable them to appreciate the relationship between knowledge and values to health problems and produce Community Health workers who can appreciate the roles of other professionals and involve them in the search for solutions to Health problems.

• Minimum qualifications are KCSE D or KCE Div. 2 or the equivalent

Course open to Beginners, Community development workers, Welfare officers and Fresh students

SEMESTER I UNITS

• English Language
• Communication Skills
• Information Communication Technology
• Introduction To Community Development.
• Introduction To Community Health.
• Social Research Methods.
• Health Education
• Nutrition And Dietetics.

SEMESTER TWO

• Communicable Diseases.
• Environment And Health
• Law In Community Health.
• Basic Microbiology & Parasitology.
• Community Health Techniques.
• Counselling Skills.
• Field Practicum And Report
• Project (Not Teachable In Class; Supervisory Unit)

The Kenya Institute of Social Work and Community Development (KISWCD) is a  centre of excellence in social work and community development offering diploma and certificate courses. Empowerment of the community through training and management is the basic foundation of the Institute.

KISWCD was started in ... read more