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Interns as health educators
1Department of Community Medicine, Kasturba Medical College, Mangalore, India.
World Health Forum
|January 1, 1995
Abstract:
Interns are being used in two experimental health education projects in a rural area of India. In one the interns talk to mothers waiting with their children at an immunization clinic; in the other they train volunteer schoolchildren to act as school health guides in a child-to-child programme.
Keywords:
AsiaChild SurvivalCommunicationDemographic FactorsDeveloping CountriesEducationFamily And HouseholdFamily CharacteristicsFamily RelationshipsHealth EducationIndiaKnowledge SourcesLength Of LifeMedical StudentsMortalityMothersParentsPeer GroupsPopulationPopulation CharacteristicsPopulation DynamicsPrimary SchoolsRural PopulationSchoolsSecondary SchoolsSouthern AsiaStudentsSurvivorshipTraining Programs