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The Primary Health Worker
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Book : The Primary Health Worker
Language : English Library : Social Phsician Publish Place : Geneva ISBN : 92 4 1541229 Publish Date : 00 1977 Publisher : World Health Organization WHO Book Number : 3299 |
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INDEX
INTRODUCTIONThe Primary Health Worker (PHW) profile PART I: WORKING GUIDE
1. Communicable diseases
1.1 Vaccinations (reminder - to be considered in the context
of national programmes)
1.2 Feverishness
1.3 Diarrhoea
1.4 Respiratory diseases
1.5 Epidemics
2. Maternal care
2.1 Pregnancy ............
2.2 Delivery ............
2.3 After the delivery (or postnatal care)
2.4 Family welfare ..........
2.5 Diseases of women ........
3. Child health. Nutrition
3.1 The well fed child
3.2 The badly fed child
4. Accidents
4.1 Burns
4.2 Wounds
4.3 Fractures
4.4 Bites ..
5. Village and home sanitation
5.1 Water supply
5.2 Excreta disposal
5.3 Waste disposal .
5.4 Food protection .
6. Other common requests
6.1 Skin diseases .......
6.2 Eye diseases .......
6.3 Headaches .........
6.4 Belly pains .......
6.5 Pains in the joints
6.6 Intestinal worms .....
6.7 Weakness and tiredness
6.8 Diseases of the mouth and teeth
6.9 Lumps under the skin .....
6.10 Mental diseases .......
6.11 Venereal diseases .....
7. Community development
7.1 Foodstuffs ............
7.2 Transport and communication development
Annex 1. Medicines..........
Annex 2. A few techniques ......
1. Taking a patient's temperature
2. Intramuscular injection
3. Sub-cutaneous injection
4. A few examples of bandages ..
5. Counting the pulse
6. Other techniques......
Annex 3. Anatomical diagrams ......
Annex 4. Index/Glossary ........
FART II: GUIDELINES FOR TRAINING PHWs
Introduction ........
1. Getting to know each other
2. Suggested techniques for making learning/teaching useful, realistic and effective..............
1. Getting to know the community......
2. Learning to work with others..........
3. Setting out what we need to learn and how to learn it
(a) Breaking down the problem into small parts
(b) Examples in teaching and learning the different
parts of a problem........
(c) Enjoying learning ............
(d) Examples of how to use different learning/teaching
methods..............
- Illustration in step form ........
- Story telling ............
- Flay acting ..............
- Use of proverbs, jokes, songs and dances
- Developing manual skills ........
- Talking with people about health ......
3. Evaluation ............
4. Examples of learning modules
FART III: GUIDELINES FOR ADAPTING THIS DOCUMENT
1. Introduction ........
2. Prerequisites ..........
3. Appointment of a working group
4. Adaptation process ........
5. Utilization, translation, printing
