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Health Promotion in a Cambodian Refugee Camp: A CHILD‐to‐child Approach
Author(s) -
BoyerChuanroong Lynda
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
journal of school health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.851
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 1746-1561
pISSN - 0022-4391
DOI - 10.1111/j.1746-1561.1984.tb08924.x
Subject(s) - refugee , child health , health promotion , promotion (chess) , health education , medicine , medical education , family medicine , political science , nursing , psychology , public health , politics , law
This paper describes a School Health Program established in Khao I Dang, a refugee camp of 80,000 Cambodians in Thailand. Originally designed to provide health screening and immunization, the program was expanded to include health promotion. The author conceptualizes the health promotion activities based on the underlying principles in the manual CHILD‐to‐child. Three specific projects using CHILD‐to‐child techniques are described. The article concludes with a discussion of the applicability of these techniques to refugee settings in general and to American schools.