What types of data will you collect for a new community profile?

Here we will focus on what needs to be included in preparing your community profile at community level for planning, implementing and evaluating health programmes. 

The types of data that we will describe in this study session are:

• Demographic data
• Epidemiological data
• Health service data
• Data on knowledge, attitudes and practice (also known as behavioural data)
• Data on physical characteristics in the environment.