developing and localizing materials to empower community health workers_shannon_5.3.12
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Developing and localizing materials to empower Community Health Workers
May 3, 2012
CORE Group
Overview
1. Introductions
2. Principles of empowering materials development
3. Introduction to Hesperian’s digital tools
4. Work groups
5. Report-back and debrief
Hesperian Books
• Where There Is No Doctor• Where Women Have No Doctor• A Book for Midwives• Disabled Village Children• A Health Handbook for Women
with Disabilities• Helping Children Who Are Blind• Helping Children Who are Deaf• Helping Health Workers Learn• Where There Is No Dentist• A Community Guide to
Environmental Health
Know your audience(s)
A nurse may be using the material…
… but not with other nurses!
Know your audience(s)
Start from people’s own experience
Choose what to include
Clarity of language
It’s not really about simple words.
Make it concrete.
Relevant information
+Acknowledgment of context
=Useful, actionable content
Start with life, not anatomy
Offer practical solutions
Find opportunities for compassion & validation
Avoid jargon
Use the spoken language of the people and avoid foreign, medical or big words.
For example, say “Press with your finger” instead of “Apply digital pressure.”
Active learning
Active learning
What health problems may be caused by this community’s use of water?
Drawings for discussion
Encourage discussion of root causes
Design Principles
• Consistent, easy to follow presentation and structure
• Clean layout
• Use pictures and icons
Consistent structure and presentation
It’s not over when it’s over
Give people a path which they can take to move forward, learn more, and take responsibility for improving their health.
Community use & feedback
Adaptations
Health GuidesDigital Commons
HealthWiki
Image Library
Health Materials Workshop & Exchange
Mobile App: Safe Pregnancy and Birth
Work Group
1. Discuss a case scenario for making a flyer OR pick a pre-made flyer to adapt
2. Discuss the audience for your flyer, what they already know, and what they would want to learn
3. Choose what content to include, considering what is most important, and what should be adapted for local needs
4. Log in to the Health Materials Workshop (healthmaterials.org)
5. Under ‘Example Health Materials’, select either the 1 or 2 Page Example OR select a pre-made flyer with content on the topic that your work group would like to customize
6. Click ‘customize’ at the top of the page, name your new health material, and edit and/or adapt it
7. Click ‘Print (pdf)’ to create a PDF of your flyer.
Sarah Shannon
Executive Director
Hesperian Health Guides
1919 Addison Street
Berkeley, CA 94704
www.hesperian.org
(510) 845-1447