This document discusses the ideal role of a community health professional. It envisions a trained health worker who lives in the community they serve, knows community members by name, and treats patients like extended family. The document advocates for selecting health workers from within communities, providing 5-10 years of phased training while maintaining connections to universities and hospitals. This would allow health workers to influence research and stay up to date, while strengthening the bond between medical centers and rural populations through feedback. The goal is for community health professionals to fulfill the dream of being a family doctor who visits patients' homes and empathizes with their situations.

1. Universal Health Coverage
• Who
• When
• Where
• What
• Why
• How

2. How Does Society See The Dream
Health Professional
• A Film/ Story You Remember with an Ideal
Doctor/ Nurse
• Nurse/ Doctor Visits Patient’s Home
• Takes A Cup of Tea
• Spends Time
• Empathizes
• Knows Everybody By Name
• The “Family Physician”

3. Evolution Of The Community
Health Professional
• Patient As Extended Family
• A bit like All Things Great and Beautiful
• Modeled On The Family Priest (jajman/ pastor)
• 3 Plays for Puritans - GB Shaw
• Social Role of a Community Nurse/
Family Doctor

4. Birth of The Clinic
• Why?
• Bethune
• Motorcycle
• Gonoshashthya
• Uttaranchal Henrik Ibsen 1882 Norway
Satyajit Ray 1990 West Bengal

5. If Family Health Worker Is What
We Want..
• Covers 2000 population
• Lives There
• Has Family There
• Has Friends There
• Teacher
• Mayor/ Pradhan
• May be from there

6. With Quality
• Trained For 5 to 10 years (in phases)
• Interaction With University and Hospital
• Interaction With Colleagues In Similar Areas
• Influences Research
• Gets Latest Information
• Helps Train Next Generation

7. So….
• Whom do We Select?
• Where Do We Train?
• Who Gives Training?
• How Do We Place?
• What Is The Mode of Communication (Centre-Periphery)
• Why Do We Need Feedback?
• When Do We Start?

8. Health Professional and
Family
Dreaming !

9. Links
• http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/doctor-in-the-house/article3529179.ece
• Medical Nemesis
http://www.soilandhealth.org/03sov/0303critic/030313illich/Frame.Illich.Ch1.html
• http://www.word-power.co.uk/books/the-birth-of-the-clinic-I9780415307727/
• http://www.4shared.com/office/p0VXw06e/An_Enemy_Of_The_People.html
• The Devils Disciple
http://books.google.co.in/books?id=QqojeZdmyS4C&source=gbs_book_similarbooks
• Ganashatru www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7kDbmhKvSo
• Opposite View http://rationallibertariancorner.com/education/facilitating-health-care-
in-indian-villages.html
• prabirkc@yahoo.com