Disease Prevention & Health Promotion Directorate
The Disease Prevention and Health Promotion Directorate is formed under health program section, within the central Ethiopia regional health bureau, tasked with improving public health outcomes through proactive and preventive measures. Its primary focus is to protect communities from communicable and non-communicable diseases while promoting healthy behaviors to enhance overall well-being. The directorate leverages evidence-based strategies, innovative approaches, and multisectoral collaboration to tackle public health challenges, address social determinants of health, and ensure equitable access to health-promoting resources. It plays a crucial role in fostering a resilient health system that empowers individuals and communities to take charge of their health and well-being.
Objectives of the Disease Prevention and Health Promotion Directorate:
The Directorate of Disease Prevention, Control and Health Promotion is an executive directorate established to implement the health prevention policy and strategy in the health sector. It is a working unit that carries out activities that enable the community to improve its health by implementing the government’s disease prevention and health promotion strategy through more than six programs and activities.
These are the government’s focus areas:
- Health Extension and Primary health care Program
- Hygiene, Sanitation and Environmental Health program
- Prevention and control of malaria and other vector-borne diseases program
- Prevention and control of tuberculosis, leprosy and other Lung diseases program
- Prevention and control of non-communicable diseases program
- Prevention and control of tropical diseases requiring attention
Health Extension, Community engagement and primary health care program (Programs, Projects, and Initiatives)
- Health extension program optimization road map
- Woreda Transformation Agenda
- Community engagement and empowerment program
- Community Score card implementation
- Woreda management standard implementation
- Health promotion and Health education program
Activities to be carried out
- Prepare a health extension program road map and detail plan
- Monitor and support the implementation of all health extension packages
- Monitor and support the organization and implementation of health development alliances
- Ensure community participation and ownership
- Monitor, evaluate and ensure that model families are model based on the implementation of health extension packages
- Organize, analyze, and implement information on health promotion and health education
- Conduct community scorecard assessment, monitor and implement
- Implement a health extension roadmap (resource, construction, human resource study, training, etc.)
- Provide health extension capacity building/integrated refreshment training
- Conduct a survey of model families
- Prepare various guidelines, regulations, training manuals and various proposals for health extension
- Celebrate various health extension festivals and holidays
- Planning health promotion and health education activitiesÂ
- Prepare reports and distribute them to relevant parties
- Hygiene, Sanitation and Environmental Health program
Activities to be carried out
- Prepare a hygiene, sanitation and environmental health plan
- Implement the sectorial indicators highlighted in the health sector plan
- Coordinate, support and monitor hygiene, sanitation and environmental health activities
- Monitor and support the implementation of hygiene, sanitation and environmental health packages
- Monitor, support and monitor the implementation of workers and workplace safety
- Monitor sanitation constructions carried out with community participation and partner organizations
- Expand market-led sanitation centers, monitor resources, and ensure that the resources obtained for the sector are properly used for community service
- Ensure community participation and ownership in hygiene and sanitation
- Facilitate climate resilience activities
- Provide access to basic sanitation service /Basic sanitation/
- Provide access to institutional wash service, monitor
- Provide access to basic sanitation service in cities
- Prevention and control of various epidemics related to hygiene and sanitation (for example, cholera, water-borne diseases, food contamination, etc.)
- Providing various hygiene and sanitation training
- Creating clean kebeles/kebeles that are free of germs
- Supporting and monitoring that households always have a clean toilet, ensuring their model
- Conducting various case studies on hygiene and sanitation
- Preparing various guidelines, regulations, training manuals and various proposals for hygiene and sanitation
- Celebrating hygiene and sanitation holidays
- Providing supportive monitoring, providing feedback
- Preparing reports and distributing them to relevant bodies
- Prevention and control of malaria and other vector-borne diseases program
Activities to be carried out
- Develop a plan for malaria and other vector-borne diseases
- Coordinate, support and monitor malaria and other vector-borne diseases prevention and control activities
- Prepare detail micro plan for malaria prevention activities
- Monitor malaria prevention logistics distribution (ITNs, IRS, Drugs and others)
- Reduce the number of malaria patients by providing the necessary support and monitoring to prevent an epidemic Conduct necessary surveillance
- Monitor and support malaria breeding sites and environmental management activities with community participation, monitor
- Conduct malaria eradication surveys to improve the implementation of Case Investigation and Response;
- Provide capacity building training for health professionals on malaria eradication Case and foci investigation and response
- Collect and analyze malaria eradication Case and foci investigation and response (FTAT) data and submit it to decision-making bodies on a weekly basis
- Prepare a work and budget plan for the malaria eradication program with support
- Allocate, approve and transfer the budget obtained with support to zones and special districts and monitor its implementation
- Ensure uninterrupted access to malaria testing and treatment services in health facilities in malaria-affected areas,
- Start malaria testing and treatment in selected private health facilities and monitor the service delivery in private health facilities that have started
- Prepare television and radio messages to strengthen the malaria eradication program and broadcast them to the community through the media in our region in different languages
- Conduct awareness-raising activities in malaria-affected areas with high malaria prevalence using mobile vans and conducting community mobilization;
- To strengthen coordination and partnership with education, agriculture and other sectors, religious leaders and prominent individuals, etc. To conduct a community-based campaign to eliminate malaria,
- Prevent and control malaria outbreaks caused by climate change
- Monitor and support the use of bed nets
- Conduct various surveys on malaria
- Celebrate Malaria Week in all areas and celebrate other holidays
- Provide basic training on Malaria case management to health facility professionals and woreda and zonal malaria focal points on malaria diagnosis and treatment guidelines,
- Analyze data showing the burden of malaria collected from health facilities every week and use it for decision-making,
- Conduct supportive monitoring, provide feedback
- Prepare reports and distribute them to relevant bodies
- Prevention and control of tuberculosis, leprosy and other Lung diseases program
- Prepare a plan for TB, Leprosy and other Lung diseases
- Coordinate, support and monitor TB, Leprosy and other TB prevention and control activities
- Request, allocate, distribute and monitor TB drugs and medical equipment
- Ensure, monitor and support the provision of TB, Leprosy and other TB drugs and medical supplies in all health facilities
- Provide training on TB, Leprosy and other TB
- Prepare a micro plan, approve budget, monitor and support the need for TB prevention and control
- Create awareness about TB in the community to increase TB prevalence, conduct testing, and provide treatment for TB cases
- Initiate and monitor MDR-TB treatment in health facilities
- Strengthen PPM and implement
- Implement TB eradication work in all areas
- Allocate, approve and transfer the budget obtained through support to zones and special districts and monitor its implementation
- Prevention and control of non-communicable diseases program
- Develop a plan for non-communicable diseases (diabetes, hypertension, mental illness, trachoma treatment, cancer screening and treatment, etc.)
- Coordinate, support and monitor non-communicable disease prevention and control activities
- Request, allocate, distribute and monitor non-communicable disease medicines and medical equipment
- Ensure, monitor and support the provision of non-communicable disease medicines and medical supplies in all health facilities
- Develop, monitor and support micro-plans for non-communicable diseases
- Coordinate physical activities in each area by showing the damage at the community level
- Provide various capacity building trainings to health professionals
- Allocate, approve and transfer the budget obtained through support to zones and special districts and monitor its implementation
- Analyze and use the data collected every month for decision-making,
- Provide support monitoring, feedback
- Prepare reports and distribute them to relevant bodies
- Prevention and control of tropical diseases requiring attention
- Develop a plan for tropical diseases of concern (Intestinal parasites, Leishmania (CL, VL and MCL), scabies, treatment of cataracts, skin diseases of the face and feet, infectious and non-infectious elephantiasis and others)
- Coordinate, support and monitor the prevention and control of tropical diseases of concern
- Request for drug treatment for tropical diseases of concern, allocate, distribute and monitor
- Create awareness of tropical diseases of concern in all health facilities and in the community, provide drugs and medical resources, monitor and support
- Develop a micro plan for tropical diseases of concern, monitor and support
- Coordinate and demonstrate the impact at the community level in terms of hygiene and environmental health care activities
- Provide various capacity building trainings to health professionals
- Budget allocation, approval and distribution of funds to zones and special districts