Using Stories for Wholistic Health Education
Stories are proving to be an extremely effective way to communicate "truth that sticks." They naturally break down resistance, and create interest. They are more easily understood, remembered, and repeated. Stories change lives.
Stories are best if they are short, clear, and relate to the listener's life experience. The impact of stories is augmented if they are followed by questions.
This session will be interactive.
This session will give examples of stories that can be used for both physical and spiritual teaching. It will give you sources for stories and questions that others have written, and give you pointers on who you can create your own stories with follow up questions.
This session will also present ideas on how you can make your stories more interesting - more memorable - more fun. This session will not make you a story telling pro, but it will encourage to start gaining the experience that gradually will make you more confident and effective as a communicator.
Christian Connections for International Health (CCIH), a global health membership organization has prioritized advocacy efforts to strengthen U.S. and global commitment to improving the health and well-being of people in developing countries. This presentation will begin with an overview of why Christians should be involved in advocacy, including a Biblical case for advocacy and speaking for the voiceless. The session will then highlight some important current federal global health efforts and other current policy issues that influence global health. The session will then equip the participants with tools to take specific action steps when leaving this session to be a positive influence on global health policy.
Professional education programs are geared toward preparing students to do curative care in healthcare settings. In order to reach into the community with preventive healthcare requires an additional set of knowledge and skills. We will look at the principles that were operative in the 1978 Alma Ata and examine what needs to be included in the education of healthcare professionals to achieve Health for All.
when macro level economic integration occurs across borders, it results in the movement of people across borders at an unprecedented level. While this brings tremendous opportunity for trade and employment (people move from the poorer to the richer country, while good move from the richer to the poorer country). The benefits flow most easily to the more food secure housholds (RFSA-1 and RFSA-2) while the insecure Households (RFSA-3 and RFSA-4) experience tremendous hardships including the risk of being trafficked. The risk of disease outbreaks across borders also increases trenedously...but there are also great opportunities for service to the vulnerable and needy; and great opportunities for the spread of the gospel among the neo migrants.
Every village has a development strategy (survival strategy) that it pursues for its survival and advancement. External interventions that seek to be sustainable, need to understand, engage and build upon this strategy. This is the startegy of the THV50-40-10 (Total Health Village), which sees health as not only treating diseases and preventing them; but goes beyond public health to address issues of Holistic well being. This session focusses on the concept, the approach, and looks at some of the outcomes identified by engaging the use of the latest Participatory tools in measuring what matters in impact.
