The pioneers of rural Pakistan
The lady health visitors
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 15216403 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jocelyn Hezekiah (McMaster University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1993 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 493-502 |
| Publication date | 1993-11-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Health Care For Women International (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0739-9332 • E-ISSN: 1096-4665 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/07399339309516079 |
| PMID | 8138467 |
| OpenAlex | W2000890847 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
Since 1978, when the World Health Organization and the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund called for urgent action by all governments to provide appropriate health care for the underprivileged, the world community has attempted to implement primary health care strategies. Pakistan, with a population of 118 million people, is one of those countries where the rural population and the underprivileged groups in the katchi-abadis (squatter settlements) of the urban areas lack appropriate and accessible health services. This article highlights the community experiences of a remarkable group of young Muslim women, the Lady Health Visitors (LHVs) of the Aga Khan Health Services, who deliver primary health care services to disadvantaged women and children in the northern mountainous areas and rural villages of Pakistan. The LHVs are the first contact with the health care system that these underprivileged women experience. The LHVs cure, care, teach, and train traditional birth attendants. In addition, they perform health promotion and document their findings. To provide their maternal and child health services, the LHVs travel by foot through miles of rough terrain to settlements and villages. Prenatal and postnatal care, anemia, diarrhea, and malnutrition are among the major health care problems of these rural women and their children under 5 years of age
Community health · Developing country · Disadvantaged · Economic growth · Environmental health · Health care · Health education · Health promotion · Malnutrition · Population · Public health · Rural area · Socioeconomics · Sociology · Global Maternal and Child Health · Medicine · Nursing · Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East
| Citations per year | 0.07 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1998 - 2020 (23) |
| Highly cited | No |