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HSA6112 - International Health Systems
Dr. Bernardo Ramirez

Week 6: Women's Health and Child Health

Conclusion

Women and Children are two of the most important and vulnerable groups of population of any community and country. Culture affects the way we behave in the presence of disease or in our lifestyles that have an important influence in the way we preserve our health. Social marketing is a useful discipline and its tools can help us understand and improve individuals and community health behavior. Primary health care is also a useful strategy to improve health care with an anticipatory risk prevention focus. Poverty is still one of the most important conditions that limit the development of populations and their health status and responsible for many infectious diseases, especially in vulnerable populations.

References

Some examples of social marketing applied by organizations to specific health programs can be reviewed in the following sites:
- The Social Marketing and Communication Center (SMCC) develops instruments and many programs that apply social marketing to health related problems in the USA and worldwide. SMCC is dedicated to improving people's lives through innovative and effective consumer-focused strategies. http://smcc.fhi360.org/
- The Center for Social Marketing and Behavior Change, this organization has developed instruments and many programs that apply social marketing to health related problems worldwide http://csmbc.fhi360.org/index.htm.
WHO Primary Health Care. Declaration of Alma-Ata and other documents related to the topic.
Toolkits for Strengthening Primary Health Care HRH Global Resource Center and Toolkits from the Partners for Health Reform Plus, USAID.

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