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Titel: Interns as health educators
Autor: ansal, R.
Schlagwörter: Child Child Welfare education Female Health Health Education Human India Internship and Residency Maternal Welfare Medicine methods Mothers Rural Health School Health Services Child Child Welfare Female Health Education/*methods Humans India *Internship and Residency Maternal Welfare *Rural Health School Health Services has initiated two programs to train medical interns as health educators. In one program mothers bringing their children to an immunization center receive health information from the interns during the waiting time. The interns first administer questionnaires designed to elicit the level of the mothers' knowledge and attitudes about breast feeding weaning diarrhea acute respiratory infections and family planning. The interns then provide whatever health education seems necessary based on these results. This program gives the interns an opportunity to appreciate the need to educate mothers as well as a chance to practice an educational methodology. In addition the mothers benefit by learning about child survival strategies. Primary care workers provide follow-up services to the mothers and assess the extent to which the mothers have retained and used the information given to them by the interns. In the second program selected school students (aged 9-16) are trained by interns to become school health guides. The training covers the modes of disease transmission the role of nutrition environmental health first aid lifestyle-related diseases and the value of yoga as a health-promoting activity. These experiments are expected to continue and to benefit from methodological improvements over time.
Webseite: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&dopt=Citation&list_uids=7794453
Sprache: English, englisch
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