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Behavior Change and Communication

Reducing Malnutrition and Child Deaths Using Care Groups

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This is an audio and slide presentation from 2009 by the director of health programs at Food for the Hungry (FH), Thomas P. Davis Jr. In it, Davis discusses FH's utilization of “care groups” to reduce malnutrition and child deaths in Mozambique. The care group method, developed by World Relief, mobilizes teams of women who volunteer to represent, serve and do health promotion … [Read more...] about Reducing Malnutrition and Child Deaths Using Care Groups

Six Guiding Principles of Streamlining Community-based Programs

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This report summarizes six guiding principles and lessons learned that emerged from the work of an MOH/BASICS team developing a community-based IMCI program in Madagascar. The principles elaborated for streamlining community-based programs are: 1. Action-based messages; 2. Easy-to-use front-line teaching tools; 3. Short skill-based trainings; 4. Engaging large numbers of … [Read more...] about Six Guiding Principles of Streamlining Community-based Programs

Knowledge and communication needs assessment of community health workers in a developing country: a qualitative study

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This study documents the perceptions of CHWs on their knowledge and communication needs, image building through mass media and mechanisms for continued education. Focus group discussions were held with health workers and their supervisors in all four provinces in Pakistan. About four fifths of the respondents described their communication skills as moderately sufficient and … [Read more...] about Knowledge and communication needs assessment of community health workers in a developing country: a qualitative study