The Mandwa Project
An Experiment in Community Participation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8109624 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Noshir H Antia (Foundation for Research in Community Health, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1988 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 153-164 |
| Publication date | 1988-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Health Services (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-7314 • E-ISSN: 1541-4469 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2190/vnay-uk5l-kcw1-ql56 |
| PMID | 3346115 |
| OpenAlex | W1971605130 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
The project at Mandwa was designed to study the problems of health in rural India and the delivery of health care by the existing public and private health systems. The results demonstrate the important role of socioeconomic and political factors not only in vital areas such as nutrition, water supply, sanitation, and housing, but also in the delivery of health services. The private sector showed a predominantly curative and monetary orientation, while the public sector demonstrated a lack of accountability to the people it was designed to serve. Under these conditions, an attempt was made to test the possibility of training local women in self-help with a minimal supportive service. The results reveal that adequate knowledge and technology exist for most of the prevalent problems of health and illness in developing countries, and that semiliterate villagers have the capacity to use these effectively if they are provided in a simple manner. This experiment also demonstrates the opposition from local vested interests to any change of the status quo, even in the relatively noncontroversial field of health
Business · Community participation · Political science · Socioeconomics · Sociology · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography
Community-Based Interventions for Improving Perinatal and Neonatal Health Outcomes in Developing Countries
Working as frontline health facilitators, service providers, program supporters, and social health activists in Indian hilly terrain areas
Rural-urban disparities in India and China
A human development intervention in the Philippines
Cultural and structural influences in the creation of and participation in community health programmes
What is participatory research
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.16 |
| Citation span | 1988 - 2022 (35) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |