Title
Culturally-based health promotion programmes [7] (multiple letters)
Date Issued
19 January 2002
Access level
open access
Resource Type
letter
Author(s)
Salud ilimitada, programa Peruano
Publisher(s)
Elsevier B.V.
Start page
262
End page
263
Volume
359
Issue
9302
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Políticas de salud, Servicios de salud
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-0037132892
PubMed ID
Source
Lancet
ISSN of the container
01406736
Sponsor(s)
The ICROSS programme, which is run in partnership with the Kenyan Ministry of Health, is supported by the Irish and Danish Governments. ICROSS has made several attempts to secure funding to extend the traditional birth attendant programme to other areas in Kenya, but to date these have been unsuccessful. Many bilateral donors have shifted funds away from supporting primary healthcare, perhaps partly because of lack of evidence that such support really improves community health. We hope that our results will help to highlight the untapped potential that is represented by the traditional healers and birth attendants in communities in less-developed countries. Rather than simply attempting to provide such communities with health services along more-developed-world lines, we should, in parallel, be developing and supporting the communities' indigenous health services.
Sources of information:
Directorio de Producción Científica
Scopus