Selecting Alternative Strategies for Community Health Education in Guineaworm Control

1985 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 313-320 ◽  
Author(s):  
William R. Brieger ◽  
Jayashree Ramakrishna ◽  
Samuel U. Akpovi ◽  
Joshua D. Adeniyi
Keyword(s):  
Health Education ◽  
Community Development ◽  
Community Health ◽  
Health Workers ◽  
Care Program ◽  
Mass Education ◽  
Community Health Education ◽  
Protection Measures ◽  
Treatment Measures

Community health education strategies in guineaworm control can be applied at several intervention levels. Community development mobilizes local resources to provide safe water supplies such as wells. Mass education in schools and communities can teach personal protection measures such as filtering water. Training of volunteer community health workers produces front line staff, who by being culturally in tune with the community can demonstrate and promote the use of appropriate prevention and treatment measures. Advocacy assists community members to express their needs to government and ministry decision makers. All of these strategies have been applied in a community health education/primary health care program in Idere, Ibarapa District, Oyo State. Community development for well construction was found to be a long-term strategy that first must overcome problems of village organization and resource location. Mass education, to be effective, must have a simple and acceptable technology to promote. Trained village health workers must overcome traditional beliefs that inhibit use of preventive and treatment measures. Advocacy requires basic political education of community leaders. A variety of health education strategies is needed to address short- and long-term priorities as well as to overcome the different barriers to guineaworm control.

scholarly journals Challenges of Community Health Education in Improving Quality of Life in Indonesia

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. p121
Author(s):  
Dwi Sogi Sri Redjeki
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Education ◽  
Community Health ◽  
Development Strategy ◽  
Health Workers ◽  
Scientific Paper ◽  
Continuous Variable ◽  
Community Health Education ◽  
Decentralized System ◽  
Professional Health

The purpose of this research is to give understanding about community health education to fill the nation’s independence which has a role to create a healthy and strong society and refer to the ability to: a) make and maintain relationships with others; b) well-interact with people and the environment, so that understanding of health can demonstrate the ability to adapt to a changing environment. The method of this scientific paper is carried out by conducting academic analysis from various aspects of relevant reference sources so as to find new theoretical meaning in order to answer the challenges that occur in society. The conclusion is that the public health paradigm is a new health development strategy that views health issues as a continuous variable, planned in a decentralized system, with service activities that are always promotive to alleviate public health, by professional health workers together with participatory communities.

EFFECT OF LONG-TERM COMMUNITY HEALTH EDUCATION ON BLOOD PRESSURE AND HYPERTENSION CONTROL: THE STANFORD FIVE-CITY PROJECT

1990 ◽  
Vol 132 (4) ◽  
pp. 629-646 ◽  
Author(s):  
STEPHEN P. FORTMANN ◽  
MARILYN A. WINKLEBY ◽  
JUNE A. FLORA ◽  
WILLIAM L. HASKELL ◽  
C. BARR TAYLOR
Keyword(s):  
Blood Pressure ◽  
Health Education ◽  
Community Health ◽  
Hypertension Control ◽  
Community Health Education

scholarly journals Diagnosis of health care actions: a territorial analysis from the user’s perspective

Revista CEFAC ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (6) ◽  
pp. 715-722
Author(s):  
Rodrigo Moraes Cruz ◽  
Jacks Soratto ◽  
Joni Marcio de Farias
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
Community Health ◽  
Community Health Workers ◽  
Health Workers ◽  
Behavioral Changes ◽  
Community Health Education ◽  
Protection Measures ◽  
Health And Illness ◽  
South Of Brazil ◽  
The City

ABSTRACT Objective: to describe the development of community health actions from the user’s perspective. Methods: a descriptive study carried out in a small city in the south of Brazil, in 2017, with 639 literate residents of both genders. The sample was calculated in a weighted system by neighborhoods, streets and age group, and data were collected by 25 community health workers, distributed into 6 Basic Health Units (UBS). The research instrument included questions about the existence and the awareness of the user about community health education activities. Data were analyzed using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) software version 22.0. Results: 76.3% of the participants identified frequent community health actions; of these, 67.3% had a nurse present and 70%, a community health workers. 63.6% of the participants thought these actions stimulate the population to reflect on their health and illness, 62.5% self-care, 66% health protection measures and 56.4%, believed that these actions influence behavioral changes. Conclusion: from the perspective of the user, the activities developed fulfilled their expectations about community actions related to health promotion; the results also show that the participants are aware of the actions developed in the city and their significant effectiveness for habits changes. However, the data demonstrate centralized activities that require a re-signification of practices through permanent education on health promotion.

Effect of Long-term Community Health Education on Body Mass Index: The Stanford Five-City Project

1991 ◽  
Vol 134 (3) ◽  
pp. 235-249 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Barr Taylor ◽  
Stephen P. Fortmann ◽  
June Flora ◽  
Susan Kayman ◽  
Donald C. Barrett ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Body Mass Index ◽  
Health Education ◽  
Community Health ◽  
Body Mass ◽  
Community Health Education

scholarly journals Assessing Long-term Impact of Values-based Community Health Education in Cambodia

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-31
Author(s):  
Amit Nirmal Cuttilan ◽  
Ravi Amran Cuttilan ◽  
Si Min Chua ◽  
Annelies Wilder-Smith
Keyword(s):  
Health Education ◽  
Community Health ◽  
Civic Education ◽  
Moral Values ◽  
Training System ◽  
Community Health Education ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Long Term Impact ◽  
The Way

Introduction: Community Health Education (CHE) is a development strategy which aims to address the needs of communities in developing countries through an emphasis on moral values and civic education. The syllabus of the CHE program guides a trainer to find the needs of a developing community and take a moral values-based approach to health issues such as alcoholism, smoking, injuries to accidents, and sexually-transmitted illnesses. The fundamental philosophy is that of development as opposed to aid. Methods: In November 2010 and February 2011, this training was conducted for leaders and volunteers from two Cambodian Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) involved in HIV prevention education and training in Cambodia. In order to investigate long-term impact, participants who underwent training sessions in November 2010 and February 2011 also underwent Focus Group Discussions (FGDs) and Key Informant Interviews (KIIs). Results: A total of 28 participants partook in the 3 FGDs and 5 participants took part in the KIIs. Participants were able to recall a number of moral values and concepts from the training. These included forgiveness, love, altruism, unity, respect, empathy, teamwork, optimism, and hopefulness. The organizations were then able to use the CHE model to change the way their organization worked together to achieve the goals in their communities. The participants were also able to use the teaching modalities employed by CHE sessions in their own work with their target communities. Conclusion: The CHE training system has had a number of positive effects. They have influenced the personal lives of the participants, the way their organizations are run and the way they reach out to their target communities. In light of the themes identified in our results, we propose further research to compare the relative magnitude of all of these effects on these organizations in the long run compared to the short run. 

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