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PubMed1992

A Community Health Education System to meet the health needs of Indo-Chinese women.

This paper presents a Community Health Education System which is cost-effective, sustainable, strongly community-based, and directed at improving the health status of rural women in Indo-china (Kampuchea, Laos and Vietnam). The system is developed through a series of steps which are concerned with the education of Community Health Education Units (in national ministries of health) and, at the village level, among community health workers, women's groups, and other women. The ultimate aim is the establishment of a community health education program in Indochinese villages.

Cambodia↗
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The impact of the Postponing Sexual Involvement curriculum among youths in California.

Postponing Sexual Involvement (PSI) is a widely implemented middle school curriculum designed to delay the onset of sexual intercourse. In an evaluation of its effectiveness among seventh and eighth graders in California, 10,600 youths from schools and community-based organizations statewide were recruited and participated in randomly assigned intervention or control groups; the curriculum was implemented by either adult or youth leaders. Survey data were collected before the program was implemented, and at three months and 17 months afterward. At three months, small but statistically significant changes were found in fewer than half of the measured attitudes, behaviors and intentions related to sexual activity; at 17 months, none of these significant positive effects of the PSI program had been sustained. At neither follow-up were there significant positive changes in sexual behavior; Youths in treatment and control groups were equally likely to have become sexually active, and youths in treatment groups were not less likely than youths in control groups to report a pregnancy or a sexually transmitted infection. The evaluation suggests that PSI may be too modest in length and scope to have an impact on youths' sexual behavior.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1988

Preliminary report of an identification mission for safe motherhood, Senegal: putting the M back in M.C.H.

The Government of Senegal, in keeping with the priority given to women and children in its health programs, requested the assistance of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) in identifying and executing a program to diminish maternal mortality in that country. A UNDP "Mission of Identification" was carried out in response to this initiative. The preliminary results of this mission confirm that the issue of maternal safety is of primary concern not only to the government but also to women in the Republic of Senegal. The methodology employed during this mission allowed the team of national and international experts to confirm the level of this concern and to identify four major potential areas of intervention. Quantitative goals for the program have been set and estimates for the efficacy of each of the intervention areas indicate that intervention through the timely provision of access to emergency surgical services and appropriate prenatal care will yield the largest reduction. The feasibility of providing interventions in each of the four areas was also addressed during the mission. This methodology will be applicable to other settings as Third World countries begin to address the problem of excessive maternal mortality.

Abortion, Illegal↗
PubMed1986

International migration and falling into the income 'safety net': social assistance among foreign citizens in Sweden.

The author focuses on public assistance payments to international immigrants in Sweden. "One object of the article is to give a statistical overview of the subject; another is to discuss reasons why international migrants receive social assistance more frequently than others. The latter leads to the formulation of econometric models and the estimation for immigrants with different backgrounds." It is found that "the number of immigrants receiving social assistance has increased since the mid-1960s. We also found that immigrants are considerably more frequent recipients of social assistance than others...." (SUMMARY IN FRE AND SPA)

Demography↗