In 1986 a survey was conducted examining the performance of voluntary health promoters in slum areas around Pucallpa, Peru, three years after an initial DANIDA project for training and supervising those promoters ended.
| Title | Community health workers in a Peruvian slum area : an evaluation of their impact on health behaviour |
| Publication Type | Journal Article |
| Year of Publication | 1990 |
| Authors | Christensen, PB, Karlqvist, S |
| Pagination | p. 183-196: fig., photogr., tab. |
| Date Published | 1990-01-01 |
| Keywords | behaviour, beliefs, boiling, diarrhoeal diseases, evaluation, health personnel, hygiene, impact, peru, peru ucayali pucallpa, primary health care, slums, vaccination |
| Abstract | In 1986 a survey was conducted examining the performance of voluntary health promoters in slum areas around Pucallpa, Peru, three years after an initial DANIDA project for training and supervising those promoters ended. The survey found that some two-fifths of the promoters were still active, that increased stress had been placed on curative tasks, and that the promoters had appeared to have had their greatest impact in vaccination coverage and increased use of the public health care service. No significant changes were found in the affected population's treatment of diarrhoea nor were there any significant improvements in drinking water hygiene (i.e. measured as the percentage of slum dwellers which boiled its water). |
| Notes | Includes references |
| Custom 1 | 142.1 |
