Malaria prevention in Zambia: a practical application of the diffusion of innovations model

Elinda Enright Steury1

  • 1Brevard Community College, Melbourne, FL 32909, USA. elindasteury@gmail.com

Transcultural nursing educators can be change agents for health issues in other cultures. Yet unfamiliar disease processes and the foreign environment provide challenges that must be overcome to achieve a lasting, effective, and positive change. Rogers's Diffusion of Innovations Model can be used to plan and implement community-focused interventions into the cultures of developing nations, specifically malaria prevention in Zambia. Transcultural nurse educators could use concepts from the model to effect change in other cultures or communities.

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