GHS 372 Bolvia women's health

What is intercultural health?

a field that gets a bridging the gap between culutural understand of health that you have to work across one's own cultural of health and ut

Empower

the role that the poor have as active subjects in the development of their community while highlighting the importance of intra-community assets in this process (Durston, 2000; Durston & Duhart, 2003). The main criterion of the concept is to transform socially excluded sectors into political actors. Empowerment means ‘changing the power relations in favor of those who had little power over their own lives in the past […]. It is the process of taking control’ (Gita Sen, 2000 quoted by Durston & Duhart, 2003). Durston (2000) points out that empowerment is not a lofty entity that grants power to others. It is the antithesis of paternalism, the essence of self-management, the capabilities of a person or social group to build

In this case, the program is successful because it incorporates existing leaders such as the healthcare promoter while strengthening their role

f providing mutual support and channeling community programs.

EXTENSA acknowledged the role of the Mothers’ Club and opened new channels for participation so that these women could attend workshops on the use of contraception methods.

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