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HEALTH EDUCATION PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS
This program will have two areas of responsibility which need to be
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closely related for maximum effectiveness:
1.
Personnel development and inservice education.
2.
Consumer/patient education,
In order to achieve lasting results, the people receiving the educational
programs must be actively involved at all levels, from the beginning.
In
addition, they should have more direct involvement in the ongoing physical
examination and screening portion.
be brought into the program.
To accomplish this, more Marshallese need to
Men and women from each island will be recruited
to assist MD's during physical examinations.
They will serve as
assistants/translators, as well as, in the case of females, chaperones.
By
training people on each island we are:
1.
not so dependent on TT manpower;
2.
more likely to head off ill will on each island because people who
live there will see, first hand, what we are doing, what
constraints we have and the mechanics of the program;
3.
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we develop people who can become indigenous health facilitators in
our absence;
4.
we cut costs because we do not have to pay for transportation and
salaries on sailing days when no work is done.
The initial training can be done by the MD's and RN's now available to the
program, plus two interpreters and the island's health aide, while the other BNL
staff are setting up.
(Initially,
these Local. assistants would not be expected
to perform procedures such as blood pressure measurement or dip stick urinalyes
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That would be taught on subsequent surveys.)