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Nutrition, Family Planning, and Health Promotion: The Guatemalan Program of Primary Health Care
Author(s) -
Lechtig Aarón,
Townsend John W.,
Pineda Francisco,
Arroyo Juan Jose,
Klein Robert E.,
Leon Romeo
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
birth
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.233
H-Index - 83
eISSN - 1523-536X
pISSN - 0730-7659
DOI - 10.1111/j.1523-536x.1982.tb01630.x
Subject(s) - sanitation , health promotion , medicine , nursing , psychological intervention , environmental health , public health , family planning , christian ministry , program evaluation , health care , rural health , community health , rural area , family medicine , economic growth , population , political science , public administration , pathology , law , economics , research methodology
This paper describes SINAPS, a program of primary health care in Guatemala, planned by the Ministry of Public Health (MOH), Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), and the Institute of Nutrition of Central America and Panama (INCAP). The objective was to design, implement, and evaluate a program of primary health care in Guatemala based on service delivery by non‐professional personnel. These personnel consist of Auxiliary Nurses (AN), Rural Health Technicians (RHT), Rural Health Promoters (RHP), and Traditional Birth Attendants (TBA). SINAPS activities are focused on immunizations, food supplementation, oral rehydration of children suffering from dehydration, family planning, perinatal surveillance, and promotion of health and environmental sanitation, with the participation of the community. This limited set of interventions is aimed at controlling the most important causes of death and disability in mothers and children in a cost‐effective way.