Culturally appropriate interventions to reduce harmful patterns of alcohol within communities maybe a way forwards – for example, via community based education programs [ 65].
The most common strategies include increasing salaries for faculty, establishing post-graduate medical education (PGME) programs, establishing community based education, recruiting graduates as faculty, establishing career pathways, and strengthening research support for faculty.
> Uganda developed the first, and what was soon to become, the strongest planned and best supported National AIDS program, with the largest national and international staffing and most intensive, broadly inclusive, decentralized and community based public education program in Africa.
The aim of this study is to reappraise the effectiveness of this community based health education program using a stronger design and an objective endpoint (the extended leave from work during pregnancy approved and granted by DPL).
A community based health education program, implemented between 1995 to 1998 in North Eastern Italy, provided counseling (by a team of gynecologists, pediatricians, geneticists, psychologists and occupational physicians), and an information leaflet detailing the risks during pregnancy and the governmental benefits available to expectant mothers.
While these factors prevent us from drawing generalizable conclusions regarding equivalence between the two forms of education delivery, the results are promising and suggest that community based preclinical education programs can be viably delivered in communities previously not considered.
As Public health practitioners we should inform the general public especially the illiterate about the adverse health consequences of tobacco use by community based health education programs and counter advertisement for tobacco use through mass media particularly radio and television.
