as well as the Office of District Planning and the Budget office within
the District Administration.
in this Section.
Selected Community Leaders also gave input
The health planners interviewed respective Department
heads to get their ideas about the existing situations in health services
and also their ideas about how the system might be improved in order
to improve the health status of the population of the Marshalls.
3.
Community:
A survey of consumer attitudes of the delivery of health
care in the Marshalls was administered during the first field visit.
The total number of respondents was 33.
All respondents were women and
had no vocational relationships with the Marshalls Department of Health
Services.
A questionnaire was developed by the field team and translated into the
Marshallese language.
The questionnaire was composed of eight questions
and identification of the respondent was not required.
The respondents
resided in four villages on Majuro and Ebeye.
The Saipan team of health planners were in the Marshalls for this data
gathering phase for a total of three weeks.
All of the information and
data gathered during this phase were analyzed in Saipan and formed the
basis of the Marshalls Health Plan which was written November, 1977.
III.
THE PLAN:
Analysis of health information gathered in the assessment of the health
system in the Marshalls District revealed the following prevalent
conditions:
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