Improving health workers’ skills trough short videos

Today I found this great project, aiming at providing short videos ( also suitable for cell phones) about key health care procedures for treatment of newborns. The videos are based on recognized WHO protocols and are tested for comprehension in focus groups. They are available in many languages. I think it’s a great way to pass clear and culturally-adapted short messages to health workers as a complementary tool for training.

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Promoting operational research

Field Research is MSF research’s website publishing operational research that was carried out in MSF’s projects around the world. access Field research.

MSF and The Union (International Union against Tuberculosis and pulmonary diseases) started a collaboration aiming at promote operational research, defined as “The science of doing better”  for low income countries.

The goal is to use data that are collected routinely in health care facilities and turn them into results that will improve health care delivery, diagnosis and patient treatment.

 

 

Compétences transculturelles et prévention

En faisant des recherches autour des compétences transculturelles je suis tombée sur un site intéressant, dédié à la transculturalité dans les  domaines de la promotion de la santé et de la prévention.

www.prevtrans.ch

Les résultats du projet « Prévention et promotion de la santé transculturelles » sont publiés sur le site ainsi que plusieurs documents, y compris les recommandations en vue du développement de programmes et actions de promotion de la santé et prévention adaptées à une population diverse.

A noter en particulier la description de l’approche transculturelle à p. 11 de  “Prévention et promotion de la santé transculturelles en Suisse-Informations de base et recommandations” et travailler avec les réseaux de la population migrante à p. 12 du même document. document

Migrant health and national strategy in Switzerland

A good summary of the situation in Switzerland

Spang T. and Zuppinger B., Switzerland: immigrants facing poverty and social exclusion – the Migration and Public Health Strategy, in: Poverty and social exclusion in the WHO European Region: health systems respond. Copenhagen, WHO Regional Office for Europe, 2010, pp.196-204

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Summary, p.196

Foreigners comprise about a fifth Switzerland’s population, and immigrants comprise about a third. Overall, there are inequalities in health status between immigrants and Swiss nationals. The immigrant population faces difficult socioeconomic and working conditions, uncertainties about residence status and greater exposure to risks to health, including unhealthy behavior. It also faces a lack of information, lower participation in sickness-prevention activities and various deficiencies in Switzerland’s health care system, such as lack of interpreting services and underdeveloped transcultural skills. Switzerland has recently increased its efforts to integrate foreigners and is elaborating appropriate cross-sectoral policies. 

The programme described in this case study is the Federal Offi ce of Public Health’s Migration and Public Health Strategy, which was implemented between 2002 and 2007 and has recently been refi ned and extended until 2013. The programme comprises activities and projects in fi ve areas: (1) education; (2) public information, prevention and health promotion; (3) health care provision; (4) therapy for traumatized asylum seekers; and (5) research. The case study describes the programme, providing information about its implementation, its effects and the lessons learned.The Migration and Public Health Strategy addresses health determinants, including access to the health system, discrimination and cultural attitudes. It also addresses health literacy, substance abuse, smoking, unsafe sex, eating habits and physical activity. To various degrees, it aims to ensure accessibility, acceptability and quality of health services.

The programme’s main achievements were to put immigrant health on the health system agenda and to raise the visibility of
problems and needs in this area. Various projects also contributed to direct improvements for the target group, the immigrant
population. The greatest challenge was to increase awareness of the issue among the diverse actors and stakeholders of the
Swiss health system and within the Federal Administration. Various educational activities have helped to build specific human
resource capacities (such as interpreters and nursing staff). Possible improvements have been identified at the strategic and
institutional level (such as agenda setting, mainstreaming the health of migrants as an issue to be addressed in policies and
programmes, and the creation of cross-sectoral networks), for greater involvement of key integration-policy actors and further
promotion of so-called cultural change in the health system.

 

 

Une émission autour de la diversité

La Télé, chaine TV suisse romande, consacre depuis quelques temps l’émission Diversité aux thèmes en lien avec la migration et la diversité. accéder aux émissions

28.5.2013:  DIVERSITÉ: SANTÉ ET MIGRATION Pourquoi les migrants ont-ils plus de problèmes de santé? Avec Patrick Bodenmann

21.10.2013 : SANTÉ: FAUT-IL ADAPTER LES HÔPITAUX SUISSES AUX MIGRANTS? Les hôpitaux suisses doivent-ils s’adapter aux problèmes des migrants? Avec Patrick Bodenmann
14.10.2013 FEMMES MIGRANTES: LA DIFFICULTÉ DE LA RÉINSERTION Les femmes migrantes sont plus au chômage que les migrants et que les Suisses
25.6.2013 LANGUE D’ORIGINE: UNE TARE OU UN ATOUT?

Quel avenir pour l’apprentissage des langues maternelles des jeunes d’origine immigrée?
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