Sembrando salud [Sowing the seeds of health]
- Contributor(s):
- Mexico. Dirección General de Salud Materno Infantil y Planificación Familiar, issuing body.
- Publication:
- Mexico City : Secretaria de Salubridad y Asistencia, Direccion General de Salud Materno Infantil y Planificacion Familiar : Coordinacion Nacional De Planification Familiar, 1979
- Language(s):
- Spanish
- Format:
- Moving image
- Subject(s):
- Maternal-Child Health Services Community Health Workers Community Health Services Family Planning Services Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice Women Mexico
- Abstract:
- Using three short, dramatized stories, this film shows how trained village women in Mexico help to change attitudes about health care practices. They offer maternal, baby and child care, and family planning guidance to other women in area villages. The female narrator explains the importance of health in the rural populations, emphasizing that only when communities are able to educate themselves and pool their knowledge and resources can they be assured of optimal health outcomes. The initiative profiled, Programa de Salud Rural (Rural Health Program) is a pathway to education for people indigenous to the community, chosen and trusted by their peers to take on the task of helping to solve common local health challenges. In one vignette, an infant girl (Juana) is crying in her home. Dona Isabel, an experienced midwife, and Maria, a relative, are nursing the heavily-bundled child through her illness. Evelia urges them to unclothe the child, arguing that Juana will overheat from fever, and that being overdressed may cause the child to suffer from convulsions and tremors (something she learned from the course she just finished). After some resistance from Dona Isabel, who has raised seven children and dismisses Evelia’s suggestion after learning that she has only raised one child. Maria steps in to support Evelia’s claim, persuading Dona Isabel to allow them to unclothe the child so that she can become more comfortable. Dona Isabel concedes. After receiving a rag bath to cool her down, the child is depicted as happily sleeping.
- Copyright:
- The National Library of Medicine believes this item to be in the public domain. (More information)
- Extent:
- 022 min.
- Color:
- Color
- Sound:
- Sound
- Provenance:
- Gift; Media/Materials Clearinghouse, Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs; 20011203; Acc# 2002-14.
- Technique:
- Live action
- NLM Unique ID:
- 101194388 (See catalog record)
- OCLC no.:
- 1310762616
- Permanent Link:
- http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101194388