For any health education to succeed, the people's perception of the disease, their beliefs and cultural practices are of utmost importance as these have tremendous influence on their acceptance of new ideas. It is therefore essential to develop appropriate health education packages based on the understanding of the traditional and socio-cultural belief systems of the people. Thus on the basis of anthropological studies, health education packages were developed for the leprosy control programme in Sarawak, aimed at both adults and children. Newspaper articles, cartoon tape-slides, cartoon story books as well as posters were developed for both Chinese as well as other groups such as Malays, Ibans and Kayans. These were field tested and are now used in the Rejang Valley of Sarawak.
BT - The Southeast Asian journal of tropical medicine and public health C1 - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3563610?dopt=Abstract CN - CHEN1986 DA - 1986 Sep IS - 3 J2 - Southeast Asian J. Trop. Med. Public Health LA - eng N2 -For any health education to succeed, the people's perception of the disease, their beliefs and cultural practices are of utmost importance as these have tremendous influence on their acceptance of new ideas. It is therefore essential to develop appropriate health education packages based on the understanding of the traditional and socio-cultural belief systems of the people. Thus on the basis of anthropological studies, health education packages were developed for the leprosy control programme in Sarawak, aimed at both adults and children. Newspaper articles, cartoon tape-slides, cartoon story books as well as posters were developed for both Chinese as well as other groups such as Malays, Ibans and Kayans. These were field tested and are now used in the Rejang Valley of Sarawak.
PY - 1986 SP - 427 EP - 32 T2 - The Southeast Asian journal of tropical medicine and public health TI - The development of culture-specific health education packages to increase case-finding of leprosy in Sarawak. VL - 17 SN - 0125-1562 ER -