COMMUNITY HEALTH NETWORK DEVELOPMENT - A NEED AND A SUPPORT FOR COMMUNITY

The paper emphasizes the major steps in establishing the community health care network, and , in 2009, the moment of decentralization and transferring them to county and local public authorities, when the National School of Public Health, Management and Professional Development obtained european funding on Priority Axis 6 of Operational Sectorial Programme - Human Resources Development, for the project "Promoting social inclusion through the development of human and institutional resources of community health care" which runs from 2009 to 2012 in Western and Central Regions . Data for the 10 counties in Western and Central Regions show that the community health care network is still in its infancy. To facilitate its development, the project proposed the composite risk score, a planning tool to assess the need of community nurses, based on which was calculated the required number of community nurses for all 10 counties. Keywords: community health care, need identification, risk, networks