World Health Organization : Technical Report Series, No. 633: Training and Utilization of Auxiliary Personnel for Rural Health Learns in Developing Countries

By H. E. Majid Rahnema

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Title:	World Health Organization : Technical Report Series, No. 633: Training and Utilization of Auxiliary Personnel for Rural Health Learns in Developing Countries
Author:	H. E. Majid Rahnema
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Language:	English
Subject:	Health., Public health, Wellness programs
Collections:	Medical Library Collection, World Health Collection
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Publisher:	World Health Organization


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INTRODUCTION Recent increases in health expenditure and spectacular advances in medicine and other sciences have had a very limited impact on people in the developing countries. If this situation persists, the attainment of better health will remain as elusive as ever for the world's rural poor and the depressed peripheral urban populations. The vast majority of the rural poor in developing countries have hitherto been without an extensive organized system of health services, although attempts have been made to provide health auxiliary manpower. The development of this category of workers has undergone continual change over the years, reflecting the evolution of thought on how health care should be provided. With increasing interest in improving health services, training programmes for multipurpose workers were initiated. Dispensary auxiliaries (also called attendants or dressers) were the lirst to appear, and in spite of minimum training, limited equipment and supplies, and little supervision, they performed their duties well, mostly in bush dispensaries. Later, corresponding to various medical professionals, intermediatelevel personnel were developed in nursing, midwifery, and environmental health. In the beginning most trainees were illiterate, but, as schooling became more widespread, trainees with primary education were recruited.

Table of Contents
CONTENTS Page Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 1 . Rural health development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 1 . 1 Primary health care and stafling patterns . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 1 . 2 Government commitment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 1.3 Community involvement and participation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 2 . Health services and manpower development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 3 . Development of rural health teams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Job titles and classiiication of front-line health personnel . . . . Composition of rural health teams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Student selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Educational programme development and teachingilearning methods . Teacher-training . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Continuing education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Management of rural health teams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Evaluation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . National reference centres for primary health care and rural health personnel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 . National strategy for developing rural health teams . . . . . . . . . . . 28 References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Selected bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Films . . .