Developing Health in the West African Bush
Subtitle: A Fulbright Memoir, Set
Contributors: Work is a Memoir of the author, Professor Stacey B. Day
Edition: First
Publisher: Kabel Publishers
Published: January 1995
Place of publication: Rockville, Maryland
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 335
ISBN-13: 9780930329969
Copyright date: 1993
Subjects: African Health
Genres: International Health; International Aid; World Health Association (W.H.O.)
Work titles: In Two Volumes
First sentence: STATEMENT OF PURPOSE - CHAPTER I : In September 1978, the United States Agency for International Development (US-AID), made a commitment to raise funds to a group of four U.S. based health institutions which had the potential for expanding their training and technical assistance in the Developing World, particularly in African countries. The purpose of these grants under Title 122(d) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as amended was to provide funds...............Meharry Medical College of Nasville was one of the four institutions which received these AID grants, and initially centred its efforts on Maternal and Child Health, Family Planning, and Applied Nutrition Program Activities.
Description: Work falls into two parts. In Part I, problems, responsibilities, and milestones passed in setting up a Dept of Community Health and Primary Health Care in West Africa are described. Focus is on Biopsychosocial Medicine and Community Health Education, including how a HEALTH TEAM performs in the Tropical Rain Forest. SELF HELP and SELF HEALTH are emphasised in training medical students, community health personnel, village health assistants on a basis of COMMUNITY ORIENTED EDUCATION and PROBLEM BASED LEARNING. Part 2 addresses underlying problems of organization and management; economic development in Lesser Developed Countries; reduction of barriers to BIOSOCIAL DEVELOPMENT, and the role of issues such as Agriculture (Nutrition); Political Will; Contracting for OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT. This section describes the setting up of a WORLD HEALTH ORGANISATION COLLABORATING CENTER FOR PRIMARY HEALTH CARE including COMMUNITY BASED EDUCATION AND TRAINING OF HEALTH PERSONNEL .
Notes: Declaration of Alma Ata, under the auspices of the Health Assembly Board of the United Nations World Health Organisation (WHO) and the Executive Board of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) propelled efforts described above. Bibliography; Cross River State, Nigeria, documents relating to Government; Health Boards; Nigerian Television Service; Village Administrations in Calabar Region (Akampka, Netim, Oban,Etinan). Leprosy Training Centers; Tropical Disease Control - Tuberculosis, Leprosy, Infectious Diseases; Amoebic and Bacillary Dysentary; Intestinal Worms; Respiratory Infections; External Parasites (Lice,Scabies, Fleas, Ticks, Mosquitos); Malaria; Cholera; Schistosomiasis; Guinea Worm; Onchocerciasis.Development of an Educational Model based on Biopsychosocial Principles - THE AKAMPKA MODEL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALABAR  MEDICAL SCHOOL - "Front-Line Doctors", Community Aids, Midwives, Allied Health Teams. Formation of Clinics at Konduga LGA; Ngala LGA and such.  COE = CBE +  PBL + MDL.
Table of contents: title: CHAPTER I :  Calabar and the Cross River Basin (Demographics, African Medical Education, Defining Problems, General Health Profile); title: Chapter 2 : Integrated Approach to Rural Health in Cross River State, Self-Health; Nigerian National Basic Health Services Scheme; title: Chapter 3 : Operational Programmes, Primary Health care Delivery Projects, MCH, School Health, Environmental Health; title: Chapter 4 : A Typical Village (Problems of Networking), Akampka Model,Integrated Approaches, Old Netim Village; title: Chapter 5 : Training Village Health Assistants, Community Health Officers, Auxiliaries, Instructional Objectives; title: Chapter 6 : Oban - Community Mobilization in Health Care; Village Attitudes and Beliefs, Social Work in the Village; title: Chapter 7 : Control of Communicable Diseases; title: Chapter 8 : Technology Transfer; title: Chapter 9 : Traditional Medicine in Cross River State; title: Chapter 10: Special Diseases; title: Chapter 11 : Discussion of Studies. Appendix Enclosures - End of Part 1.; title: PART 2 - Chapter 12: Health Technical Assistance; title: Chapter 13 : Establishment of a World Health Organization Collaborating Center for Community Based Education and Training; title: Chapter 14 : Establishment of a Joint Memorandum of Understanding (JMOU) in Health with US-AID; title: Chapter 15 : NAFEEO/AID with chapters 16, 17,18, 19 dealing with Logical Frameworks Buying into Education; title: Appendix : Technocracy; Culture; Biopsychosocial Integration; Networking with US-AID; Health Care Costs/Parsimony of Options; title: Bibliography and References for Part 2