Sembrando salud [Sowing the seeds of health]
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Summary
| Description | Using three short, dramatized stories, this film shows how trained village women in Mexico help to change attitudes about health care practices. They offer maternal, baby and child care, and family planning guidance to other women in area villages. The female narrator explains the importance of health in the rural populations, emphasizing that only when communities are able to educate themselves and pool their knowledge and resources can they be assured of optimal health outcomes. The initiative profiled, Programa de Salud Rural (Rural Health Program) is a pathway to education for people indigenous to the community, chosen and trusted by their peers to take on the task of helping to solve common local health challenges. In one vignette, an infant girl (Juana) is crying in her home. Dona Isabel, an experienced midwife, and Maria, a relative, are nursing the heavily-bundled child through her illness. Evelia urges them to unclothe the child, arguing that Juana will overheat from fever, an |
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| Source | collections.nlm.nih.gov |
| Author | Mexico. Dirección General de Salud Materno Infantil y Planificación Familiar, issuing body. |
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Attribution: Mexico. Dirección General de Salud Materno Infantil y Planificación Familiar, issuing body.