A3&4 Flashcards
He is a well-respected public servant who possesses an innate and/or developed quality of being service-oriented and is willing to advance community health development or help the community people
Community Health Worker
Activista
Mozambique
Anganwadi
India
Animatrice
Haiti
Barangay Health Worker
Philippines
Brigadista
Nicaragua
Kader
Indonesia
Promotora
Honduras
Shastho shebika
Bangladesh
Shastho karmis
the leaders of shastho shebika
Sevika
Nepal
People accepts his/her ideas, attitudes and skills without questions because of the substance of such ideas, attitudes, and skills
Well-respected.
He is a dedicated person from within community or province who is committed to carry on with community work
A Public Health Servant.
His character traits were present even at childhood.
Innate
His attitude of being service-oriented was acquired after observation, experiencing or exposure to the same hardships of life that the community experienced.
Developed
Programs he creates are geared towards self-reliance, transforming communities into something more sustainable, thus improving and maintaining the health status of the community.
Community Health Development.
declared that basic health care should be provided by health workers in villages.
The central government of China 1951
created as a reform of the Chinese medical education in the 1960s.
barefoot doctor scheme
They focus on prevention, education, maternal and child health care and collecting disease information.
barefoot doctor scheme
They function as the representative of community members to fight against inequities and advocate community rights and needs to government structures.
Village health workers
ROLES AND FUNCTIONS OF A CHW
- Primary Health Care Provider
- Community Health Development Worker
- Observes, documents and records activities
- Facilitator
- Health Educator
promotes the health of entire communities and populations
public health
understands that the primary cause of illness and health are more than access to health care
Public health
aims to influence social determinants of health by primarily advocating for policies to assure that basic resources and rights for all people.
public health
- Self-sacrifice
- Dedicated
- With Missionary Spirit
- Positive response to Community Service - Lifetime service to others
- Empathy to the marginalized Sectors
Service-oriented
- Does not mean shielding the community from hardships necessary for growth - Makes self-available for the needy
Genuine Love and care for people
- Open-mindedness
- Recognizes and accepts strengths and limitations
- Accepts criticisms constructively
Openness and humility
- Knows the community life
- Aware of the hardships of the people
Resident of the community
- Flexibility to any kind of work and adaptability to any kind of situation - Sets alternative plans
Flexible
- Ability to develop new ideas, strategies, possibilities
- Ability to improve what is already available
Creative
- Respect for traditions, laws, values
- Does not consider traditions or laws as totally sacred when it works against people - Ability to cope with others culture, tradition, and practice
Reverence
- Ability to keep proportion
- Strong sense of self-confidence to look at people and to share one’s mind
Sense of balance
- Knows about the actual situation of the community he works with
- Knows what is hardship
- Is bothered and moved by the situation of the community and would really like to
do something about it
Knowledgeable
- Rapport-building skills
- Observing, listening, analyzing skills
- Documenting skills
- Communication and Facilitating Skills
- Problem solving and conflict negotiation skills
- Handling reflections and evaluation skills
- Agitating, motivating, and challenging skills
- Project proposal making
Skillful
process by which information is exchanged between individuals through a common system of symbols, signs and behavior.
Communication
origin and meaning of the word of communication
“communicare” or “communis” which means “to impart”, “to participate”, “to share” or “to make common”.
Communication is a process of passing information and understanding
from one person to another.
Keith Davis
Communication is essentially the ability of one person to make contact with
another and make himself or herself understood.
John Adair
Communication is an exchange of ideas, facts,
opinions or emotions of two or more persons.
William Newman and Charles Summer
Communication is a bridge of meaning. It involves a systematic and
continuous process of telling, listening and understanding.
Louis Allen
Communication is a process by which information is transmitted between
individuals and / or organizations so that an understanding response result.
Peter Little
Communication is a process of transmitting and receiving verbal and non-verbal messages. It is considered effective when it achieves
the desired response or reaction from the receiver.
Murphy, Hildebrandt, Thomas
a process of transmitting ideas,
information, attitudes by the use of symbols, words, pictures, figures to a receiver
Communication
encodes the idea by selecting words, symbols, or gestures with which to compose a message.
Sender/Speaker/Source/Encoder.
The information, ideas, or thoughts conveyed by the speaker in words or in action.
Message
has to do with the way in which symbols are structured
Message code
selection of material to express the purpose
Content
way in which the message is presented
Treatment
process of converting the message into words, actions, or other forms that the speaker understands.
Encoding
medium or the means in which the encoded message is conveyed.
Channel
Process of interpreting the encoded message
Decoding
recipient of the message or someone who decodes the message
Receiver/Decoder
reactions, responses, or information provided by the receiver.
Feedback
environment where communication takes place.
Context
factors that affect the flow of communication
Barriers
spoken or written words which are the most frequent modes for conveying information
Verbal Communication
anything else conveyed through written symbols such as language.
Written communication
other form of verbal communication is the spoken word,
either face-to-face or through phone, voice chat, video conference or any other medium.
Oral communication
also known as body language.
Non-Verbal Communication
refers to the non-verbal element of communication that is used to modify meaning and show emotion.
Paralanguage
Means
of Non-Verbal Communication
Physical appearance including adornment
Posture and gait
Facial expressions
Eye contact
Body movements and gestures
Touch
Tone of voice
Symbols
Signals
barriers that occur in every step of the communication process
Process Barriers
refers to the use of an inappropriate channel or format of messaging
CHANNEL BARRIER
If the sender’s message contains too much information,
the receiver may have a difficulty interpreting the information
Information overload
an emotional individual might be too preoccupied with his or her emotions at the time of receiving the message and might interpret the wrong idea
Emotional interference
refer to physical distractions that might interfere with the communication process such as physical structures such as walls, distance, static from radio
Physical Barriers
The words we choose, how we use them and the meanings we attach to them cause many communication barriers.
Semantic Barriers.
include people’s backgrounds, perceptions, values, biases, needs, and expectations.
Fields of experience
means that more often than not we see and hear what we are emotionally tuned in to see and hear.
Filtering
distance between people that is similar to actual physical distance.
psychological distance
