EDUCATIONAL HANDBOOK FOR HEALTH PERSONNEL

( By J.-J. Guilbert )

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Chapter 1: Priority health problems and educational objectives - The actors involved in activities related to health care

The participants involved in activities related to health care (whom we shall call here the actors), both in the health system itself and in the support systems, may be institutions, public or private agencies, or individuals. Some of them directly provide health services (e.g. nurses or doctors). Others work in areas in which certain aspects are relevant to health - they are indirect providers of care. They may belong to interprofessional groups which include health personnel, or occupy positions in which they are natural partners in dialogue or collaboration with health professionals (e.g. agronomists).

Then there are the users of the health services. Some will have occasional recourse to competences in the area of health (e.g. school-age children) while others will be more regular users (e.g. diabetics). Dialogue between all these users and providers will produce valuable feedback for those whose task it is to design training programmes for health personnel.

These actors are very numerous. We shall nevertheless attempt to identify them, simply in order to understand how important and necessary it is that there should be dialogue between them and how difficult and complex this is likely to be.

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EXERCISE

1.17

For each of the high priority health problems (column 1) you listed previously (page 1.09), state the support systems concerned in your country (column 2); the providers of direct (column 3) or indirect (column 4) care and the occasional (column 5) or regular users (column 6).


































High priority health problems


Support systems


Actors




Providers


Users




Direct


Indirect


Occasional


Regular


(1)


(2)


(3)


(4)


(5)


(6)









There are nearly always more actors involved than you might expect! Compare your list with the list on the next page... and draw your own conclusions.

EXERCISE

1.18

Now examine the long list of actors1 reproduced below (for an example comprising only two health problems).


- Underline those you mentioned in the previous exercise;

- Place brackets round the actors you did not mention and relate them to the particular health problem(s) which concern them.

1 Drawn up by a group of participants in the Community Health Course, Faculty of Medicine University of Geneva, Switzerland, 1989.










































Actors


High priority health problems


Support systems


Providers


Users




Direct


Indirect


Occasional


Regular


(1)


(2)


(3)


(4)


(5)


(6)


Resulting from internal aggression (lifestyle) e.g.
- obesity
- hypertension
- diabetes
- stroke
- heart attack
- dental caries
- alcoholism
- smoking
- anorexia
- suicide
- cancer


- all citizens
- general infrastructure
- education system


- doctors
- nurses
- dentists
- pharmacists
- health educators
- gynaecologists
- psychiatrists
- psychologists
- paediatricians
- nutritionists
- dietitians


- teachers
- journalists
- media specialists
- publicists
- caterers
- chefs/cooks
- food industry
- farmers
- industrialists
- tobacco and alcohol regulatory authorities
- agronomists


- healthy individuals
- parents
- infants
- school-age children
- pregnant women


- groups at risk
- diabetics
- elderly people


Resulting from external aggression e.g.
- transport, work, home, school accidents
- air and water pollution


- political system
- public administration
- education system
- general infrastructure


- surgeons
- physio-therapists
- radiologists
- veterinarians
- emergency medical workers
- occupational physicians
- school doctors


- opticians
- oculists
- laboratory technicians
- sanitary engineers
- ambulance drivers
- meteorologists
- driving instructors
- architects
- planners
- civil engineers
- teachers
- civil administrators
- elected representatives
- politicians
- trade unions
- ergonomists
- insurers

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