Knowledge for Health - www.k4health.org
Submitted by K4Health on 7 December 2009 - 10:59am.
The mission of K4Health is to increase the use and dissemination of evidence-based, accurate and up-to-date information to improve health service delivery and health outcomes worldwide. CKM4Health's current knowledge management activities include:
- Collectively developing “toolkits” of up-to-date and evidence-based resources that make information easy to find and easy to use;
- Adapting existing toolkit knowledge resources for local and regional use;
- Developing new toolkit resources—articles, guides, curricula, fact sheets, job aids, and eLearning courses;
- Encouraging feedback about toolkit resources through discussion boards;
- Sponsoring global, regional, and country-level forums;
- Providing free online and offline eLearning courses on a variety of health topics; and
- Supporting virtual networks among health care professionals, communities of practice, and technical working groups.
The U.S. Agency for International Development’s (USAID) Office of Global Health funds the K4Health project, which is implemented by The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health’s Center for Communication Programs (CCP), Family Health International (FHI), and Management Sciences for Health (MSH).
Further information and toolkits are available on K4Health website
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K4Health Toolkits
Our toolkits are virtual spaces to learn, participate and help create the most up-to-date health information resources available.
These toolkits are the products of collaborative efforts between K4Health and partner organizations around the world and are living repositories of quality, relevant, and useful information on various health-related topics. They respond to the expressed information needs from the field of health policy makers, program managers, and service providers.
Our toolkits are based on a continuous publishing principle that ensures new information resources are collected and made accessible. This participatory approach ensures that toolkits are of the highest quality and can evolve after publication to capture additional resources and to identify and fill remaining information gaps.
If you would like to learn more about K4Health's toolkit-building process, we have developed the "K4Health Guide for Building Collaborative Toolkits," which includes a general framework of five main activities:
We encourage you to participate by suggesting new toolkit topics or commenting on existing ones. If you would like to learn more, suggest new toolkit topics, or begin collaborating, contact the team at toolkits@k4health.org or click on one of the published toolkits and join a discussion. Below are our published toolkits:
IUD Toolkit (http://www.k4health.org/toolkits/iud)
Injectables Toolkit (http://www.k4health.org/toolkits/injectables)
Elements of Family Planning Success Toolkit (http://www.k4health.org/toolkits/fpsuccess)
Multiple and Concurrent Partnerships (http://www.k4health.org/toolkits/MCP)
Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission (http://www.k4health.org/toolkits/PMTCT)
Population, Health and Environment (http://www.k4health.org/phe_toolkits)