FAQs
Here are some frequently asked questions that may help you. If not please do not hesitate to email team(at)chgn(dot)org with your query.
The news articles on CHGN's home page - where do they come from?
What are the aims of CHGN?
What will the network do?
Why should I join the network?
How much will it cost?
How can I share an article, story or information about events with other members?
Can anyone become a member?
How can I get involved?
How can I access free health journals?
The news articles on CHGN's home page - where do they come from?
The CHGN team want to help you stay informed, and save you valuable time and effort. Therefore we scan the Lancet, WHO Bulletins, WHO press releases, Transactions in Trop Med Hygeine, Trop Doctor, Footsteps, the Developments magazine (DiFID), Contact magazine, communications from UNAIDS, BMJ and the HIFA network for the most relevant information about community-based health care.
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What are the aims of CHGN?
To link faith-based programmes together to help address the issues of isolation, competition and duplication.
To make collaboration easier to benefit those who otherwise have no time for networking in their busy schedules.
To facilitate mutual learning to move people from thinking "I'm right" or "I don't need you" to "We can learn from each other to make a bigger difference."
To encourage participation, then programmes will discover they have worthwhile contributions to make.
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What will the Network do?
Networking and connecting (health workers, doctors and community leaders etc.) for collaboration, learning and support. Through strategic use of this website, cluster gatherings, Google groups, Facebook, Twitter and other tools, CHGN facilitates coordination and the sharing of community approaches to key health issues.
Training, capacity building and information sharing... through the web, local experts and consultants; and by cluster gatherings, training and exposure visits to successful programmes.
Advocacy - speaking up for and working with those who cannot access nor afford the most basic healthcare. CHGN helps to empower individuals, communities and programmes to access funding, facilities and services in order to benefit and support the communities they serve.
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Why should I join the network?
Because your contributions count. Whether you are a community health worker (or a student of community health), doctor, academic or consultant, you will not only learn from other members around the world, but also help to improve the community health practice in your area, and express how your faith makes a difference to your work!
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How much will it cost?
Individual membership is free. However, we do ask that the members (or their organisations) who are able to contribute to the work of the network, make a donation at www.justgiving.com/CHGN or set up a regular standing order, by emailing accounts(at)interhealth(dot)org(dot)uk.
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How can I share an article, story or information about events with other members?
First of all, you need to register as a member of CHGN.
Then enter the 'Get Involved' section, where you will find a page called 'Contribute to the website'. You will be able to add your feedback, comments, questions, articles, links, notices, learning, requests for support and stories of success etc. here. You could also add your comments to a relevant Discussion on the Forum page, or indeed, start a new topic.
Alternatively, if you have a particularly large contribution you would like to share, such as training materials, word or pdf documents, powerpoint presentations or photographs, please email them to team(at)chgn(dot)org.
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Can anyone become a member?
Yes, anyone involved with or interested in urban or rural communitybased health care is welcome to become a member. CHGN is based on Christian values and beliefs, but welcomes members of any faith or no faith.
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How can I get involved?
Here are a few suggestions:
Join the network.
Stay connected.
Offer other members your ideas, skills and learning, and let team(at)chgn(dot)org know if you have particular area of expertise.
See if there is an active cluster in your country and join it. If there isn't, you could help to set one up!
Make a financial contribution (at www.justgiving.com/CHGN), to help sustain and resource network activities.
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How can I access free health journals?
Here are some suggestions:
It's often hard to know if an article or journal is good quality. A good place to start is the WHO Bulletin.
International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications. INASP promotes information access for better healthcare worldwide
For access to medical journals that are free to everyone look here or search OAI
For a powerful search engine to find most health and science journal articles by author, title or subject, look up 'pubmed'. Then, click on 'Preview/Index' and add your search terms for one or more fields - author, title, etc.
When you know the reference of an article, you can generally read its abstract in pubmed. To see the full text you can try to 'Linkout' (link menu to right side of window) or you may have to click on the name of the journal and follow through link to the publisher's own site (for example www.thelancet.com) and enter the names of authors or other details in their site's search box. Sometimes a publisher will ask you to register. Access to public health articles is usually free.
If you live in a low income country and work with a not-for-profit training / education institution, you should be able to join the Health InterNetwork Access to Research Initiative's Scheme, organised by the World Health Organization.
Look at the site and click on the "eligibility" menu. This will get you access to commercial journals.
You could also check out the UN's HINARI programme (which enables resource-poor users to access journals for free).
Source is an international information support centre designed to strengthen the management, use and impact of information on health and disability information worldwide.
Open J-Gate (Open access journals, launched in 2006 by Informatics (India) Ltd.)
Also see Highwire and Free Medical Journals
HAPPY READING!
P.S. These days more and more articles are available over the internet. When you want to tell someone else about an article (for example on one of this network's topic pages) then it is a good idea to use the Digital Object Identifier system which should go on working even if a publisher re-arranges it's website. Simply look for the DOI reference at the top of electronic articles and site the reference.
Back to the top
The news articles on CHGN's home page - where do they come from?
What are the aims of CHGN?
What will the network do?
Why should I join the network?
How much will it cost?
How can I share an article, story or information about events with other members?
Can anyone become a member?
How can I get involved?
How can I access free health journals?
The news articles on CHGN's home page - where do they come from?
The CHGN team want to help you stay informed, and save you valuable time and effort. Therefore we scan the Lancet, WHO Bulletins, WHO press releases, Transactions in Trop Med Hygeine, Trop Doctor, Footsteps, the Developments magazine (DiFID), Contact magazine, communications from UNAIDS, BMJ and the HIFA network for the most relevant information about community-based health care.
Back to the top
What are the aims of CHGN?
To link faith-based programmes together to help address the issues of isolation, competition and duplication.
To make collaboration easier to benefit those who otherwise have no time for networking in their busy schedules.
To facilitate mutual learning to move people from thinking "I'm right" or "I don't need you" to "We can learn from each other to make a bigger difference."
To encourage participation, then programmes will discover they have worthwhile contributions to make.
Back to the top
What will the Network do?
Networking and connecting (health workers, doctors and community leaders etc.) for collaboration, learning and support. Through strategic use of this website, cluster gatherings, Google groups, Facebook, Twitter and other tools, CHGN facilitates coordination and the sharing of community approaches to key health issues.
Training, capacity building and information sharing... through the web, local experts and consultants; and by cluster gatherings, training and exposure visits to successful programmes.
Advocacy - speaking up for and working with those who cannot access nor afford the most basic healthcare. CHGN helps to empower individuals, communities and programmes to access funding, facilities and services in order to benefit and support the communities they serve.
Back to the top
Why should I join the network?
Because your contributions count. Whether you are a community health worker (or a student of community health), doctor, academic or consultant, you will not only learn from other members around the world, but also help to improve the community health practice in your area, and express how your faith makes a difference to your work!
Back to the top
How much will it cost?
Individual membership is free. However, we do ask that the members (or their organisations) who are able to contribute to the work of the network, make a donation at www.justgiving.com/CHGN or set up a regular standing order, by emailing accounts(at)interhealth(dot)org(dot)uk.
Back to the top
How can I share an article, story or information about events with other members?
First of all, you need to register as a member of CHGN.
Then enter the 'Get Involved' section, where you will find a page called 'Contribute to the website'. You will be able to add your feedback, comments, questions, articles, links, notices, learning, requests for support and stories of success etc. here. You could also add your comments to a relevant Discussion on the Forum page, or indeed, start a new topic.
Alternatively, if you have a particularly large contribution you would like to share, such as training materials, word or pdf documents, powerpoint presentations or photographs, please email them to team(at)chgn(dot)org.
Back to the top
Can anyone become a member?
Yes, anyone involved with or interested in urban or rural communitybased health care is welcome to become a member. CHGN is based on Christian values and beliefs, but welcomes members of any faith or no faith.
Back to the top
How can I get involved?
Here are a few suggestions:
Join the network.
Stay connected.
Offer other members your ideas, skills and learning, and let team(at)chgn(dot)org know if you have particular area of expertise.
See if there is an active cluster in your country and join it. If there isn't, you could help to set one up!
Make a financial contribution (at www.justgiving.com/CHGN), to help sustain and resource network activities.
Back to the top
How can I access free health journals?
Here are some suggestions:
It's often hard to know if an article or journal is good quality. A good place to start is the WHO Bulletin.
International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications. INASP promotes information access for better healthcare worldwide
For access to medical journals that are free to everyone look here or search OAI
For a powerful search engine to find most health and science journal articles by author, title or subject, look up 'pubmed'. Then, click on 'Preview/Index' and add your search terms for one or more fields - author, title, etc.
When you know the reference of an article, you can generally read its abstract in pubmed. To see the full text you can try to 'Linkout' (link menu to right side of window) or you may have to click on the name of the journal and follow through link to the publisher's own site (for example www.thelancet.com) and enter the names of authors or other details in their site's search box. Sometimes a publisher will ask you to register. Access to public health articles is usually free.
If you live in a low income country and work with a not-for-profit training / education institution, you should be able to join the Health InterNetwork Access to Research Initiative's Scheme, organised by the World Health Organization.
Look at the site and click on the "eligibility" menu. This will get you access to commercial journals.
You could also check out the UN's HINARI programme (which enables resource-poor users to access journals for free).
Source is an international information support centre designed to strengthen the management, use and impact of information on health and disability information worldwide.
Open J-Gate (Open access journals, launched in 2006 by Informatics (India) Ltd.)
Also see Highwire and Free Medical Journals
HAPPY READING!
P.S. These days more and more articles are available over the internet. When you want to tell someone else about an article (for example on one of this network's topic pages) then it is a good idea to use the Digital Object Identifier system which should go on working even if a publisher re-arranges it's website. Simply look for the DOI reference at the top of electronic articles and site the reference.
Back to the top