Guinea: Interpersonal Communication and Counseling; Building Trust in the Health System

U.S. Agency for International Development. 03/2017 This two-page case study, published by the USAID-funded Health Communication Capacity Collaborative (HC3), examines some of HC3 ' s activities and tools that were part of an overall social and behavior change communication strategy to improve health behaviors and increase the demand for and use of quality reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health services in Guinea as it continues to recover from the Ebola outbreak. It reveals that one of the keys to increasing demand and use of services was improving the skills and behavior of health providers to improve client communication and influence positive health outcomes. (PDF)

Source: Disaster Lit: Resource Guide for Disaster Medicine and Public Health - October 19, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: The U.S. National Library of Medicine Source Type: news