Health Cycles

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Health Cycles

• life for all

Rodolfo Morales M. General Director Estrategias
Sociales de Desarrollo
rodomorales_at_gmail.com
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Learning Objectives

• To understand the concept of the Health Cycles
• To view local and national trends in Guatemala
  Public Health
  
• To understand the importance of running Health
  Cycles to achieve better and progressive goals

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Performance Objectives

• Better knowledge of Health Cycles as a Public
  Health tool
  
• Support the planning, organization and execution
  of Health Cycles
  
• Watch the Guatemalan experience

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Central Concept

• The Rural Health Day is the seed of the new
  territorial health cycle.
  
• The Rural Health Day embrace Primary and
  Secondary Health.

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Main Goal

• To organize Rural Health Days at the countryside
  and around Guatemala City in order to approach
  extreme poverty populations and reach the nation
  level

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Public Health FrameworkGuatemala

• No preventive culture
• Institutionalized health structure
• Centralized health services
• Paradox High rentability of Health Sector

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Public Health FrameworkGuatemala

• Mostly poor or extreme poor populations
• Prevailing death causes
• Diarrhea
• Bronconeumony
• Women perinatal period diseases

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Process

• Preparatory activities
• Rural Health Day
• Future labors

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Preparatory Activities

• Conceptual and Operative Definition
• Locality mapping and inspection
• Local contacts and support comitee
• Regional and internationals contacts
• Planning and logistic definition
• Informative package
• Media
• Local radio
• Web Sites
• Press Center

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Rural Health Day

• Health attention area
• Ecological services area
• Recreation
• Art
• Culture
• Enterteinment
• Sports
• Day market (Bazaar of good and services)
• Familiar closing party

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Future labors

• Civil Organization
• Compromises
• Feedback
• Poor identification and targeting
• Social monitoring
• Programming next Rural Health Days
• Regionalization and ruting
• Familiar follow up to high risk groups
• Marginals
• Marginates
• Critic populations

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Future labors

• Financial and Economic strenghtening
• Proffesional Development
• Project Development
• Water systems

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Structure

• Comunitarian- familiar cell
• External
• Internal

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External Structure

• Honor
• Observers and individuals to be rewarded
• Institutional
• Strategic allied organizations, similar or
  linked
  

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Internal Structure

• Technicians
• Cycle Coordinator
• Institutional collaborators
• Honor supporters
• Executive Chief
• Executive
• Rural Health Day Command
• Local contacts (comunitarian- families)

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Finance

• Advertising
• Bazaars
• Training
• Goods and services sale
• Allied bank
• Projects
• - Primary health calendar
• - Secondary health calendar
• - Terciarian health calendar

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PILOT EVENTS

• Tecpán and sorroundings
• February to June 2001
• Mixco
• April 2001
• Boca del Monte
• March 2002
• El Chapetón Beach
• May 4th 2002