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Facts for Life Wall Calendar
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This tool makes life-saving knowledge easily available to everyone. It
presents, monthly, the most important health information, about an issue or
concern, that every family has a right to know. The messages are simple, and
people in Maharashtra can act on them. The calendar will also indicate state
health days, and health educational mass media events. |
Partnership of Health and Education
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Educate all school children, especially young girls
before child-bearing age, about important health information. A
partnership between the Ministries of Health and Education in Maharashtra
will include the teaching of proper health practices within the
curriculum. |
Timing Births
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Reduce health risks for children born to mothers under the age of 18, by
educating about the dangers of diarrhoea and the importance of timing births.
Encourage the culture of having children a little later in life and have a
child at least 24 months after a previous birth. |
School Notebooks
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Educate school children about health issues in
descriptive messages, cartoons, and animation printed on their notebooks.
Young school-children will see these key health messages almost every day
to encourage them to become health conscious members of society, and to
convey important information to their families and the community. |
Hand Washing with Soap and Water
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Promote the habit of Hand Washing with Soap and Water
to decrease episodes of diarrhoea. To ensure the sufficient availability
of soap, partnerships with local manufacturers will be used to promote
this practice. |
Social Mobilization of Boy Scouts
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Educate and encourage young boys to be health
conscious members of society, and to convey important health messages to
their families and the community. The Boy Scouts will partner with the
government of Maharashtra, attend school events and public fairs,
organize rallies and fundraisers, create and distribute handouts. |
Health Resources CD
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For those without internet access, all these resources will be available on a
CD which will be freely distributed to health care providers, educators,
reference libraries, doctors, schools, universities, and hospitals in
Maharashtra. |
Online Resources
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For those who have access to the internet or a computer, a comprehensive,
up-to-date body of material about diarrhoea, dehydration, oral rehydration,
water systems, hygiene, sanitation, and much more is available.
hetv.org provides a
comprehensive set of resources relating to health education. Materials can be
downloaded for offline research or printed for easy dissemination. |
Television Broadcasts
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Educate the entire community about health issues
through documentaries, commercials, news programs, public service
announcements, and other TV programs. The broadcasts, linked to the Facts
for Life Calendar, will advertise health days and other monthly TV health
shows. |
Radio Broadcasts
and Community Radio
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Educate the general public and mothers about health
issues through an informal dialogue in various radio formats (interviews,
documentaries, quiz shows). The radio programmes will educate with the
same messages as the TV broadcasts, but will reach a wider audience.
Community Radio |
Solar Disinfection
of Water
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Disinfect soiled water with this free and easy technique using solar
radiation. This simple process of filling transparent containers with water,
and exposing them to full sunlight for about five hours, destroys pathogens
in the water. |
Toilet Facilities in All Schools
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Encourage and contribute to developing the necessary
partnership between the state of Maharashtra and the Government of
India’s programmes to establish toilet facilities in all schools. The
Indian government has launched a focused campaign to increase the
households in the country that have toilets by 2010. Additionally, we
will target the urgent need for separate toilets for boys and girls,
together with a hand-washing facility in every school in Maharashtra. |
Water Disinfection
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Treat soiled water and prevent the spread of disease by promoting the
practice of boiling water and the usage of chlorine, iodine, or even
household bleach, to conduct home water disinfection. Health workers will be
trained to use these practices, and will convey the techniques to mothers. |
Webcast
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Online health education videos for mothers, health care providers, medical
specialists, doctors, and students. These videos can be easily transferred
for news, TV, or radio broadcast. |
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