MDPH Community Education Project Addresses Antimicrobial Resistance and MRSA

2006 ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 143-151
Author(s):  
Marco Heli Franco-Valencia ◽  
Marina Sánchez de Prager

The Nasa indigenous community on the Yaquivá reservation, located in the municipality of Inza (Cauca-Colombia), has designed a "Life Plan", in which education plays a fundamental role. This is reflected in the Community Education Project carried out at the Jiisa Fxiw agroecological school. However, within the Colombian ethnographic literature, there are no records that systematize these life plans from the agroecologi-cal approach. In order to help fill this gap, the objective of this study was to analyze the life plan for the Yaquivá reservation from the agroecology perspective. Participatory action research was used for the research methodology. The results identified the legal and constitutional frameworks that support this plan and action document as the main strength. In addition, the document facilitates the development of institutionalism with autonomy and identity. It was concluded that the life plan for the Yaquivá reservation, in itself, constitutes a force that surpasses the technological and productive (distributive), socioeconomic (structural), and sociopolitical (dialectical) dimensions. Additionally, as part of the Nasa indigenous community, the entire life plan is influenced and determined by its own worldview, i.e. its spiritual perspective.


1986 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-49 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronald Labonte ◽  
William J. Shannon

Poverty, unemployment, and other forms of social inequality are strongly associated with increased mortality and morbidity rates. Public health interventions into socioeconomic or structural causes of illness must be multidimensional, involving health promotion, health education, health advocacy and community development strategies. A specific health education project designed to increase professional and community awareness of social inequality as a public health risk factor is described as a model for similar undertakings by other health departments.


2015 ◽  
Vol 29 (5) ◽  
pp. 509-511 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Gallagher ◽  
Sue Pullon ◽  
Margot Skinner ◽  
Patrick McHugh ◽  
Eileen McKinlay ◽  
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2006 ◽  
Vol 45 (11) ◽  
pp. 455-457 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cindy Sullivan Kerber ◽  
Emily Schlenker

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