Health education to promote community involvement in the control of tropical diseases
Health education to promote community involvement in the control of tropical diseases
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DOI：
10.1016/0001-706x(95)00104-m
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发表时间：
1996-04-01
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影响因子：
2.7
通讯作者：
Brieger, WR
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作者：
Brieger, WR
健康教育是促进自愿适应健康相关行为的学习活动的任何组合。在追求这一定义时，卫生工作者通常朝两个主要方向努力，一是社区发展办法，二是行为主义沟通办法。虽然热带发展中国家的健康教育往往采取社区全面参与的发展办法，包括确定方案优先事项，但疾病控制的健康教育更多地被描述为一种行为模式，利用简单化的、专业确定的信息和短期运动，试图影响与疾病传播有关的健康行为。尼日利亚Idere的努力基于社区对一种地方性热带疾病--几内亚线虫病的担忧，试图将这两种方法结合起来。在此基础上，开展了志愿乡村卫生工作者(VHW)培训。VHW一旦接受培训，就会发展自己的协会，作为由VHW自己指导的进一步卫生发展规划的组织基础。
Health Education is any combination of learning activities that promote voluntary adaptations in health-related behaviour. In pursuing this definition, health workers generally work in two main directions, a community development approach and a behavioristic, communications approach. While Health Education in tropical, developing countries often takes the developmental approach with full community involvement, including the setting of programme priorities, Health Education for disease control has more often been characterized as the behavioristic mode utilizing simplistic, professionally determined messages and short-term campaigns to attempt to influence health behaviours related to disease transmission. Efforts in Idere, Nigeria, have tried to merge the two approaches building on community concern about one endemic tropical disease, Guinea worm. From this base, volunteer village health worker (VHW) training was developed. VHWs, once trained, developed their own association, which served as an organizational base for further health development programming, directed by the VHWs themselves.