Training Medical Students in Public Health Practice and Cultural Efficacy to Support Improvement to the Honduran Health Alliance’s Health Education Programming
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Goldman, Bailey
- Affiliation: Gillings School of Global Public Health, Department of Maternal and Child Health
- Abstract
- Background: The Honduran Health Alliance (HHA) is a student-led project that seeks to reduce the incidence of cervical cancer through increased screening and improved health education. HHA has been visiting the same six communities since the summer of 2005 providing well woman exams and community health education talks, or charlas. Need: Over the past 8 years, the same 3 charlas have been used (one new charla on domestic violence was added 2 years ago) with the same population. Through in-depth interviews, women in the communities served by HHA shared several other areas of need for increased education that are not covered in the current charlas. Past HHA student participants also expressed their frustration with the current health education program and desire to augment the program through the addition of new charlas. Students need training in public health methods and skills for developing health education sessions to be equipped to undertake quality improvement efforts of the current programming. Training Description: The purpose of this training is to give medical student participants in the Honduran Health Alliance (HHA) a foundation in public health perspectives and build an appreciation for training methods that are participatory, empowering, and culturally appropriate. This will allow them to develop new health education sessions on reproductive health topics relevant to the lives of the women served by the project. An overarching theme that is present throughout the training is the development of cultural efficacy, personal awareness, and consideration of context in both the development of health education content but also interactions with community members and women attending the HHA clinic. This training has been developed as a comprehensive unit that will provide future Public Health Leaders with a tool they can use in subsequent years to engage and support students in continuous quality improvement of HHA’s health education programming.
- Date of publication
- May 2012
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- Advisor
- Kotch, Jonathan
- Degree
- Master of Public Health
- Degree granting institution
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Graduation year
- 2012
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