Meeting family planning needs of factory workers in Port Said: Lessons from pilot testing an intervention in eight garment factories [Arabic]

Meeting family planning needs of factory workers in Port Said: Lessons from pilot testing an intervention in eight garment factories

10.31899/sbsr2021.1043 ◽

2021 ◽

Keyword(s):

Family Planning ◽

Lessons Learned ◽

Health Programs ◽

Factory Workers ◽

Project Staff ◽

Health Clinics ◽

Worker Health ◽

Large Numbers ◽

Garment Factories ◽

Port Said

The Evidence Project conducted an intervention to raise awareness about family planning and reproductive health (FP/RH) topics with factory workers in Port Said, Egypt. This policy brief describes lessons from its implementation over three years and offers recommendations for designing FP/RH worker health programs. These lessons and recommendations are based on insights from factory worker program beneficiaries, their peer educators, factory managers, and project staff. Key lessons learned from the intervention were: (1) worker health programs offered a unique venue for raising young people's awareness of FP/RH issues and available services; (2) factory workers played an important role in sharing FP/RH information with their co-workers, and factory nurses could expand their role to include FP/RH counseling for workers as well as referrals for FP/RH services; (3) factories with large numbers of female workers could consider on-site women's health clinics to address workers' FP/RH needs, and factory health committees for worker health program management may help enhance their sustainability.

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A comprehensive model to address reproductive health and family planning needs of factory workers in Port Said [Arabic]

10.31899/sbsr2021.1042 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Keyword(s):

Family Planning ◽

Lessons Learned ◽

Comprehensive Model ◽

Peer Educators ◽

Factory Workers ◽

Garment Factory ◽

Increasing Demand ◽

Study Participants ◽

Port Said ◽

Garment Factory Workers

This infographic describes interventions conducted in Port Said, Egypt, aimed at increasing demand for private family planning health (FP/RH) services among young men and women (aged 18-35 years). The intervention was aimed at young garment factory workers, where selected factory workers were trained to serve as peer educators and to provide FP/RH messages to their co-workers, referring them to the infirmary nurse for more information and counseling, as needed. This nurse referred those who desired more services or FP methods to trained physicians and pharmacists. The infographic provides an overview of the interventions, perspectives from study participants, and lessons learned for integrating FP/RH into workers' health education programs.

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A comprehensive model to address reproductive health and family planning needs of factory workers in Port Said

10.31899/sbsr2021.1041 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Keyword(s):

Family Planning ◽

Lessons Learned ◽

Comprehensive Model ◽

Peer Educators ◽

Factory Workers ◽

Garment Factory ◽

Increasing Demand ◽

Study Participants ◽

Port Said ◽

Garment Factory Workers

This infographic describes interventions conducted in Port Said, Egypt, aimed at increasing demand for private family planning health (FP/RH) services among young men and women (aged 18-35 years). The intervention was aimed at young garment factory workers, where selected factory workers were trained to serve as peer educators and to provide FP/RH messages to their co-workers, referring them to the infirmary nurse for more information and counseling, as needed. This nurse referred those who desired more services or FP methods to trained physicians and pharmacists. The infographic provides an overview of the interventions, perspectives from study participants, and lessons learned for integrating FP/RH into workers' health education programs.

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Lessons Learned in Creating Interoperable Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources Profiles for Large-Scale Public Health Programs

Applied Clinical Informatics ◽

10.1055/s-0038-1677527 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 10 (01) ◽

pp. 087-095

Author(s):

Susan Matney ◽

Bret Heale ◽

Steve Hasley ◽

Emily Decker ◽

Brittni Frederiksen ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Family Planning ◽

Large Scale ◽

Health Service Delivery ◽

Lessons Learned ◽

Health Programs ◽

Work Processes ◽

Public Health Programs ◽

Logical Models ◽

The Family ◽

Program Data

Objective This article describes lessons learned from the collaborative creation of logical models and standard Health Level Seven (HL7) Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) profiles for family planning and reproductive health. The National Health Service delivery program will use the FHIR profiles to improve federal reporting, program monitoring, and quality improvement efforts. Materials and Methods Organizational frameworks, work processes, and artifact testing to create FHIR profiles are described. Results Logical models and FHIR profiles for the Family Planning Annual Report 2.0 dataset have been created and validated. Discussion Using clinical element models and FHIR to meet the needs of a real-world use case has been accomplished but has also demonstrated the need for additional tooling, terminology services, and application sandbox development. Conclusion FHIR profiles may reduce the administrative burden for the reporting of federally mandated program data.

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Community Participation: The Maasai Health Services Project, Tanzania

International Quarterly of Community Health Education ◽

10.2190/jplm-xvkt-dxlw-lje6 ◽

1987 ◽

Vol 7 (4) ◽

pp. 343-351 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Elihuruma Nangawe ◽

Francis Shomet ◽

Erik Rowberg ◽

Therese McGinn ◽

William van Wie

Keyword(s):

Family Planning ◽

Health Services ◽

Technical Assistance ◽

Health Workers ◽

Community Organization ◽

Lessons Learned ◽

Project Staff ◽

Northern Tanzania ◽

Problems And Solutions

The Maasai Health Services Project in northern Tanzania is a primary health care undertaking in which individuals chosen by their communities are trained as providers of selected preventive and curative services, including family planning, and as facilitators of change in their areas. The communities, through the selection, support, and supervision of these community health workers (CHWs), are actively involved in every stage of project activities. This article examines in detail the process through which community management of the project is promoted. Important elements within this process include: 1) holding several unhurried meetings with community members and leaders to discuss health problems and solutions fully; 2) cultivating leadership and management from within the community while providing technical assistance from the outside; 3) working with CHWs who are selected by their communities; 4) conducting the training of CHWs in their own communities instead of at a distant site; and 5) integrating community organization skills and activities into CHW training. Some of the lessons learned are that 1) project staff must resist the role of expert and maintain that of facilitator; 2) the pace of the project must be in step with the communities' understanding and readiness to accept it; 3) the role of the CHW must respond to the urgently felt need for curative services; the real need for preventive services, such as family planning; and the long-range need for social change; and 4) the project must respect the traditional social structure of the Maasai and Waarusha groups served and must also recognize and adapt to the differences between them.

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Workplace health program intervention in Port Said, Egypt

10.31899/sbsr2021.1029 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Keyword(s):

Health Program ◽

Peer Educators ◽

Workplace Health ◽

Factory Workers ◽

Garment Factory ◽

Garment Factories ◽

Program Intervention ◽

Increasing Demand ◽

Port Said ◽

Garment Factory Workers

This video describes an intervention conducted by the Evidence Project in Port Said, Egypt, aimed at increasing demand for private family planning health (FP/RH) services among young men and women (aged 18–35 years) who work in garment factories. In Port Said, the intervention was aimed at young garment factory workers, where selected factory workers were trained to serve as peer educators and to provide FP/RH messages to their co-workers, referring them to the infirmary nurse for more information and counseling, as needed. This nurse referred those who desired more services or FP methods to trained physicians and pharmacists. This video also describes how factory health committees were created to ensure sustainability of the program in each factory. This video, which is in Arabic with English subtitles, can be used to introduce a worker health program to factory leadership.

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Mass fainting in garment factories in Cambodia

Transcultural Psychiatry ◽

10.1177/1363461517703918 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 54 (2) ◽

pp. 155-178 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

Maurice Eisenbruch

Keyword(s):

Health Workers ◽

Participant Observation ◽

Khmer Rouge ◽

Ethnographic Study ◽

Industrial Accidents ◽

Factory Workers ◽

Phnom Penh ◽

Garment Factory ◽

Garment Factories ◽

Garment Factory Workers

This paper reports an ethnographic study of mass fainting among garment factory workers in Cambodia. Research was undertaken in 2010–2015 in 48 factories in Phnom Penh and 8 provinces. Data were collected in Khmer using nonprobability sampling. In participant observation with monks, factory managers, health workers, and affected women, cultural understandings were explored. One or more episodes of mass fainting occurred at 34 factories, of which 9 were triggered by spirit possession. Informants viewed the causes in the domains of ill-health/toxins and supernatural activities. These included “haunting” ghosts at factory sites in the wake of Khmer Rouge atrocities or recent fatal accidents and retaliating guardian spirits at sites violated by foreign owners. Prefigurative dreams, industrial accidents, or possession of a coworker heralded the episodes. Workers witnessing a coworker fainting felt afraid and fainted. When taken to clinics, some showed signs of continued spirit influence. Afterwards, monks performed ritual ceremonies to appease spirits, extinguish bonds with ghosts, and prevent recurrence. Decoded through its cultural motifs of fear and protest, contagion, forebodings, the bloody Khmer Rouge legacy, and trespass, mass fainting in Cambodia becomes less enigmatic.

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