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  • Title: [Child for child in Zaire: school children in the service of health].
    Author: Wembonyama O, Mbuy B.
    Journal: Dev Sante; 1992; (98):20-2. PubMed ID: 12290180.
    Abstract:
    In Gecamines, Zaire, a coordination unit examines ways to introduce medical education in 90 business schools in order to promote and protect health with and through children and in favor of the community. Its activities include analyses of the causes of failure to implement medical education in the past; proposing solutions and strategies allowing the unit to succeed at proposed activities; initiating a training program for physicians, teachers, social workers, and all persons promoting the program; introducing the child-to-child pedagogy at schools and for health education for children; informing teachers about screening methods for certain abnormalities and early detection of illnesses; and helping teachers control the vaccination status of children and participate in increasing vaccination coverage. School-based activities are personal hygiene; general cleanliness of class rooms, halls, and rest rooms; screening for illnesses, especially sight, hearing, and walking anomalies; children-organized health education conferences; and transmission of health education messages via drama, songs, conferences, and drawings. Out-of-school activities include relay of new health information to families and the community through children and surveillance of schools to prevent window thefts (source of air currents leading to upper and lower respiratory infections). The oldest children care for the health of other children, especially those who live near them; inform their parents about community health resources; serve as health volunteers (e.g., growth monitoring); and actively help control and evaluate the progress of health activities in their neighborhoods. After one year of primary health care coordination activities, the results are encouraging. Children play a substantial role favoring the promotion and protection of health. They can give life to prevention activities and even care for the youngest children. They can be excellent health volunteers in their community. They influence adults and other children.
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