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College of Community Health Sciences

PHILOSOPHY
OBJECTIVES
PROGRAMMES
HANDBOOK

🏢 PHILOSOPHY

The philosophy of the College of Community Health Sciences centers on primary healthcare delivery, rural health mobilization, and preventative medicine structures. The programs are strategically developed to build professional health extension workers who serve as the vital operational links between institutional medicine and grassroots communities. Through extensive fieldwork, students are conditioned to implement health education, manage rural clinics, and execute health tracking policies to reduce community disease burdens.

🎯 OBJECTIVES

The academic objective is to output community-oriented primary healthcare officers equipped with extension techniques. The key objectives are to:

  • Equip extension practitioners with core protocols for clinical triaging, essential drug administration, and localized diagnostic tracking.
  • Develop high proficiency in administering community immunizations, reproductive tracking metrics, and maternal advisory workflows.
  • Inculcate thorough knowledge regarding environmental sanitization control, waste processing strategies, and safe water standards.
  • Train workers to effectively identify local health trends, map epidemiologic indicators, and flag infectious outbreaks early.
  • Provide advanced skills in data gathering tools to report field health indices directly into regional and federal databases.
  • Foster professional communication capabilities tailored to drive successful public health interventions and advocacy campaigns.
  • Establish a robust scientific background suitable for proceeding to advanced specializations in public health sciences and research fields.

📚 HEALTH SCIENCE PROGRAMMES

Available Professional Extension Tracks:

Community Health Extension Worker (CHEW)

Advanced community healthcare practices, clinical supervision, epidemiology, and primary healthcare facility management.

Junior Community Health Extension Worker (JCHEW)

Fundamental home healthcare models, primary field data gathering, first-aid interventions, and basic community sensitization.

📖 ACADEMIC BRIEF