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Footsteps 12

PARTNERSHIP IN HEALTH

The idea behind primary health care is to move the emphasis away from large institutions with professionally trained people and to share the responsibility for health care with ordinary people. The emphasis is not on curing health problems, but on preventing them. Information about health needs to be shared with everyone. Ordinary people who are helped with clear, simple information can prevent and treat many common health problems in their own homes. In 1978, over 150 governments from around the world signed the Alma Ata Declaration to support primary health care in their own countries.

In this issue we hope to open a discussion on how to encourage community based primary health care.  

Please find below articles from Footsteps issue 12.


Bele - a little known vegetable with huge potential
by Nicky Davison.   Bele (Hibiscus manihot) - which is also known as slippery cabbage, aibika and sunset hibiscus - is a plant whose leaves are often used in cooking in the South Pacific. Recently it has spread throughout the Pacific and its popula... More >>
Bible study
Our approach to community health and development by Stan Rowland.  Many Christian groups are concerned with meeting either spiritual needs or physical needs. What are our priorities as Christians? What can we learn from the Bible on this subject? ... More >>
Case studies - primary healthcare
These examples give some idea of the variety of approaches in primary health care, looking in particular at the selection and training of community health workers, community involvement and funding. With many thanks to those who helped provide this ... More >>
Community health and development: an integrated approach 
by Stan Rowland.   Many Christian organisations are concerned with meeting either people’s spiritual needs or their physical needs. Too often, Christians separate the needs of people.  Some church groups feel that they solve the problem by develo... Suite >>
Editorial
The idea behind primary health care is to move the emphasis away from large institutions with professionally trained people and to share the responsibility for health care with ordinary people. The emphasis is not on curing health problems, but on pr... More >>
Knotty Problems
The Haunted Well Mengo Hospital, near Kampala, have recently identified three wells in nearby villages, that they would like to ‘protect’. These are 15 feet or so in diameter and look like stagnant ponds, although they are fed by underwater springs... More >>
Lettering guide for posters
In Footsteps No 8, we looked at some ideas for producing illustrations which could be used as posters. Here is a simple idea for producing lettering for posters or banners. These are outlines of lettering guides. They will give a neat and uniform res... More >>
Letters
Composting toilets The sanitation guidelines outlined in the December 1991 issue of Footsteps give readers a helpful guide to the relevant issues in sanitation. My point is that other toilet systems, like composting, should be included in any surve... More >>
Partnership in primary health care
by Isabel Carter and Ted Lankester. Developing partnership Primary health care is often only thought of in medical terms. However, the key to successful community based health care is to work in partnership with the community.  This, an often revol... More >>
Resources
Making Health Care Equipment - Ideas for local design and production ISBN 1 85339 067 4 This practical book contains illustrated step-by-step instructions for making items such as folding beds, ward screens, wheelchairs and mobility aids. It gives ... More >>
The ‘Diarrhoea Doll’!
Jean-Pierre, Toussaint, Patrice and Raphael supervise a group of health workers in Rafai, Central Africa Republic. Their task is to teach how to avoid some diseases. One of the commonest diseases in the area is diarrhoea. To make the teaching more ef... More >>
Three-pile sorting cards
This is a very useful teaching method which has been developed and used by Kumasi Health Education Unit in Ghana. It encourages community health workers to participate in discussion and to develop self confidence in thinking through the problems and ... More >>