Application of a Health Questionnaire to Pre-Urban Communities in a Developing Country

When health centers are introduced for the first time in the provinces of a developing country, staffed by paramedical personnel who have been given the task of providing generalized services rather than mere curative medicine, there is usually a great need for basic information. The epidemiology and endemic disease pattern needs to be ascertained on a statistical basis. Sanitary conditions, supply and safety of water sources and indigenous traditional beliefs and practices relating to health and sickness need to be studied. If this research is carried out prior to the functioning of the health center, a base-line can be established against which the effectiveness of the health center can be measured in later years, particularly if control communities, not receiving a health center, can be located within the same cultural and ecological area. Finally, data and observations can be fed back to the institution that trained the para-medical workers, in order to improve curriculum, and to the central Public He

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