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J Stoeckel

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PubMed1991

The impact of a community based health education program on the incidence of diarrheal disease in southern Thailand.

This study has demonstrated that additional training of service providers [village health volunteers (VHVs), village health communicators (VHCs)] in combination with the mobilization of village leaders and influentials to promote selective preventive health behavior, can have a marked impact upon the effective practice of these behaviors and diarrheal incidence. Further, this impact can be achieved through the existing staff structure, ie, VHV/VHCs of the national health program. For example, increased contact between these service providers and mothers of children under 5 years through home visits and attendance at meetings held by the service providers, contributed positively to the practice of selected preventive behaviors. If the national program provided similar training inputs on the promotion of selected preventive behaviors and increased service provider contacts, the program's impact upon diarrheal disease would be enhanced.

Child, Preschool↗
PubMed1990

Socioeconomic and health programme effects upon the behavioral management of diarrhoeal disease in northeast Thailand.

This study investigates the effects of socioeconomic and health programme factors on preventive and curative health behaviors and assesses the impact of preventive health behaviors on the incidence of diarrhoea among children under five years of age. Methodological approaches included focus groups to uncover local definitions of diarrhoeal disease, a baseline survey which collected data on maternal preventive health behaviors for 1,364 children, and a monitoring system which collected data on the incidence of diarrhoea and on maternal curative behaviors among the same group of children. Results indicate that socioeconomic status and exposure to health programmes showed significant relationships with selected maternal preventive behaviors. Children whose mothers washed their hands before breastfeeding, gave their child food immediately after cooking and warmed foods each time before meals had significantly lower proportions with diarrhoea than children of mothers who did not practice these behaviors, and 70 percent of the children with diarrhoea were exposed to high risk of severe dehydration and related health complications. Implications of these findings for health programmes are discussed.

Child, Preschool↗
PubMed1975

Differentials in fertility, family planning practice, and family size values in South Korea, 1965-1971.

Data from five Korean national KAP surveys of currently married women, conducted between 1965 and 1971, are analyzed to determine whether differentials have emerged or are emerging between urban and rural women in three factors of crucial importance for population growth: fertility, family planning practice, and family size values. Graphics are used throughout to analyze urban-rural differentials and trends in these factors over time. In addition, two statistical tests, the sign and binomial, are applied to the differentials to provide a tabular summary of results. Part I provides background information on population growth, urbanization, the achievements of the national family planning program, and economic development in Korea since the 1950's. Part II describes both urban-rural differentials in fertility, as measured by mean parity, for married women aged 30-39 between 1966 and 1971; and urban-rural differentials in the proportions of women aged 25-39 currently practicing family planning between 1965 and 1971. Part III analyzes urban-rural differences in ideal family size and ideal number of sons, controlling for number of living children and number of living sons. Part IV attempts to evaluate the impact of the national family planning program on the fertility, family planning practice, and family size values of the rural population by examining the findings on urban-rural differentials in the context of social and economic development, viewing the program as one of a multitude of variables that can affect these factors.

Adult↗