Teamwork is encouraged throughout the field guide. Since it is not always easy to classify a given practice, team discussion is again recommended. Health education should be focused on changing inappropriate knowledge and harmful practices. The method recommended is through group meetings and trials to enable discussion and analysis of the feasibility of changing a certain practice. Also, the use of games, songs, other folk media, and role playing is suggested as well as the use of all communication channels identified in the community.
Communities often see other problems as more urgent than health problems per se.
The manual was pre-tested with focus groups comprising health care providers from different parts of the country. The text was modified based on the information provided by the health care providers, including the suggestions they offered, such as illustrating the field guide with pictures drawn by them. The first and most important obstacle to the implementation of the field guide by health care providers is their previous health training. In general, training courses for health workers focus on the idea that they are agents of change, that is, that they have to change the ways of the people in regard to health and nutrition. In fact, the distinction between the home visits conducted to collect data for morbidity reports, follow-up, reference. or health education purpose and visits for obtaining qualitative information needs to be clarified.