scholarly journals Senegal: Community education program increases dialogue on FGC

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
Women’S Health ◽  
Women's Health ◽  
Education Program ◽  
Community Education ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Scale Up ◽  
Female Genital Cutting ◽  
Post Intervention ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
Attitudes And Behavior

From 2000 to 2003, FRONTIERS collaborated with the Senegalese nongovernmental organization Tostan to evaluate the effects of a community-based education program on awareness, attitudes, and behavior regarding reproductive health and female genital cutting. The Tostan program provides modules in local languages on hygiene, problem solving, women’s health, and human rights. It was designed to improve women’s health and promote social change by enabling participants, mainly women, to analyze and find solutions to community problems. As stated in this brief, Tostan implemented the education program as part of a scale-up effort in 90 communities in the Kolda district of southern Senegal. The FRONTIERS evaluation took place as part of the project and compared changes in knowledge, attitudes, and behavior of men and women in 20 villages in the intervention area with those living in 20 nonintervention villages. Changes were measured using pre- and post-intervention surveys of women and men in the intervention and control areas and qualitative interviews with key community members. They also assessed pre- and post-intervention changes in the number of girls under 10 who had been cut.

scholarly journals Burkina Faso: Community education program scaled-up in Burkina Faso

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
Reproductive Health ◽  
Burkina Faso ◽  
Education Program ◽  
Community Education ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Community Empowerment ◽  
Female Genital Cutting ◽  
Post Intervention ◽  
Health And Human Rights ◽  
The Government

The government of Burkina Faso is committed to the improvement of women’s reproductive health. Within this context, the Population Council’s FRONTIERS Program collaborated with two nongovernmental organizations, Tostan in Senegal and Mwangaza Action in Burkina Faso, to replicate the Tostan community-based education program. Originally developed in Senegal, this program provides modules in local languages on hygiene, problem solving, women’s health, and human rights as a means of promoting community empowerment to facilitate social change. The intervention, implemented from 2000 to 2003 in the provinces of Bazega and Zoundwéogo in Burkina Faso, compared the performance of 23 participating villages with 23 control villages. To measure the program’s impact on awareness, attitudes, and behavior regarding reproductive health and female genital cutting, researchers conducted pre- and post-intervention surveys of women and men in the intervention and control areas, and qualitative interviews with key community members. To measure the diffusion of knowledge, researchers surveyed men and women who lived in the intervention area but did not participate in the study. They also assessed pre-and post-intervention changes in the number of girls under 10 who had been cut.

scholarly journals Understanding the Spatial-Related Abstraction of Public Health Impact Goals and Measures: Illustrated by the Example of the Austrian Action Plan on Women’s Health

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 773
Author(s):  
Tatjana Fischer
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Women’S Health ◽  
Women's Health ◽  
Spatial Planning ◽  
Action Plan ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Health Impact ◽  
Political Awareness ◽  
Policy Paper ◽  
High Degree

The influence of spatial aspects on people’s health is internationally proven by a wealth of empirical findings. Nevertheless, questions concerning public health still tend to be negotiated among social and health scientists. This was different in the elaboration of the Austrian Action Plan on Women’s Health (AAPWH). On the example of the target group of older women, it is shown whether and to what extent the inclusion of the spatial planning perspective in the discussion of impact goals and measures is reflected in the respective inter-ministerial policy paper. The retrospective analysis on the basis of a document analysis of the AAPWH and qualitative interviews with public health experts who were also invited to join, or rather were part of, the expert group, brings to light the following key reasons for the high degree of spatial-related abstraction of the content of this strategic health policy paper: the requirement for general formulations, the lack of public and political awareness for the different living situations in different spatial archetypes, and the lack of external perception of spatial planning as a key discipline with regard to the creation of equivalent living conditions. Nonetheless, this research has promoted the external perception of spatial planning as a relevant discipline in public health issues in Austria. Furthermore, first thematic starting points for an in-depth interdisciplinary dialogue were identified.

Estrogens, brain and behavior: studies in fundamental neurobiology and observations related to women's health

2000 ◽  
Vol 74 (5) ◽  
pp. 365-373 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donald W Pfaff ◽  
Nandini Vasudevan ◽  
H.Kami Kia ◽  
Yuan-Shan Zhu ◽  
Johnny Chan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Women’S Health ◽  
Women's Health ◽  
Brain And Behavior ◽  
And Behavior

P056 The jean hailes foundation-women's health education program as a reproducible model

Maturitas ◽  
1996 ◽  
Vol 27 ◽  
pp. 132
Author(s):  
G.A. Davidson ◽  
J.H. Michelmore ◽  
R. Craven ◽  
S.R. Davis
Keyword(s):  
Health Education ◽  
Women’S Health ◽  
Women's Health ◽  
Education Program ◽  
Health Education Program

scholarly journals Use of Postpartum Care: Predictors and Barriers

2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica N. DiBari ◽  
Stella M. Yu ◽  
Shin M. Chao ◽  
Michael C. Lu
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Women’S Health ◽  
Women's Health ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Community Education ◽  
Underserved Populations ◽  
Population Based ◽  
Postpartum Care ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Care Community

This study aimed to identify actual and perceived barriers to postpartum care among a probability sample of women who gave birth in Los Angeles County, California in 2007. Survey data from the 2007 Los Angeles Mommy and Baby (LAMB) study (N= 4,075) were used to identify predictors and barriers to postpartum care use. The LAMB study was a cross-sectional, population-based study that examined maternal and child health outcomes during the preconception, prenatal, and postpartum periods. Multivariable analyses identified low income, being separated/divorced and never married, trying hard to get pregnant or trying to prevent pregnancy, Medi-Cal insurance holders, and lack of prenatal care to be risk factors of postpartum care nonuse, while Hispanic ethnicity was protective. The most commonly reported barriers to postpartum care use were feeling fine, being too busy with the baby, having other things going on, and a lack of need. Findings from this study can inform the development of interventions targeting subgroups at risk for not obtaining postpartum care. Community education and improved access to care can further increase the acceptability of postpartum visits and contribute to improvements in women’s health. Postpartum care can serve as a gateway to engage underserved populations in the continuum of women’s health care.

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