Helping Health Workers Learn

This book provides hundreds of methods, aids, and learning strategies to make health education engaging and effective, encouraging community involvement through participatory education.

Last modified: July 23, 2021

Language: Arabic, Bangla, Chinese, English, Farsi, Indonesian, Portuguese, Tamil, Urdu

RESOURCES

Tools

Examples

    Noora Health COVID-19 Resources

    This resource center is part of Noora Health, which works in Pakistan and Bangladesh collaborating with health systems and governments in implementing the Care Companion Program to provide high-impact medical skills training, positioning family members as the cornerstone of recovery in facilities and at home.

    The resource center includes materials developed by a team of doctors, behavior change researchers, and designers who have developed a range of materials about COVID-19 awareness and prevention in multiple regional languages.

    Last modified: January 5, 2021

    Language: Bengali, English, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu

    Making of No-Cost Face Masks at Home to Prevent the Spread of the Coronavirus

    The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare in India has created a three-minute video called Making of No-Cost Face Masks at Home to Prevent the Spread of the Coronavirus“. It has been uploaded separately in 12 other major Indian languages thus enabling the free face mask message to be understood throughout rural and urban India, and have been designed specifically for poor and lower middle class households, including for non-readers.

    These short videos demonstrate how these vulnerable families can easily make no-cost face masks/coverings at home, use them hygienically and observe related precautions. They can be used by all those working in government agencies, and NGOs in health, community and adult education/school programmes and any awareness-raising activities related to Covid-19.

    The list of the video in 12 major Indian languages is below.

    Source: Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, India

    Date of Publication: August 26, 2020

    COVideo19 Student-Led Initiative

    COVideo19 is an initiative led by Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health students aimed at providing science-based, social media friendly information on COVID-19 in multiple languages. The students are part of the Digital Health Society, the student arm of the Johns Hopkins University Global mHealth Initiative.

    The video series, aimed at young, connected audiences around the globe, challenges viewers to become “public health warriors” and combines scientific knowledge about COVID-19 with instructions on how to help stop its spread. In addition to the introductory video—now available in 20 languages and counting—COVideo19 features brief Q&As in multiple languages that address common myths, misconceptions, and concerns sourced from students’ home communities, ranging from the effects of COVID-19 on mental health to the seasonality of the coronavirus. The videos are available on the School’s playlist.

    Source: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

    Date of Publication: May 17, 2020

    Cholera Prevention Animated Video

    This video, which can be used on smart phones, describes several techniques that can be used to help prevent cholera, including methods of treating water, washing of hands, and seeking medical advice if/when one has the symptoms of cholera.

    The video is available for download in many languages and can be downloaded to a computer, cell phone, smart phone, or for broadcast.

    Source: SAWBO

    Date of Publication: March 25, 2019

    Health Phone [Videos, Website]

    HealthPhone™ is a personal video reference library and guide to better health and nutrition practices, for families and communities, including the illiterate, in their language, distributed on mobile phones.

    HealthPhone™ provides families with their own personal reference library and guide to better health practices. Available in real time, right to those who need it, when they need it and when a health problem is about to strike, where they are, and as they are.

    There is no signal or connection required. HealthPhone’sover 1,400 health and nutrition videos are available on the following topics:

    • Timing of Pregnancy
    • Births
    • Safe Motherhood and Newborn Health
    • Child Development and Early Learning
    • Breastfeeding
    • Nutrition and Growth, Immunization
    • Diarrhea
    • Coughs, Colds and More Serious Illnesses
    • Hygiene
    • Malaria
    • HIV
    • Child Protection
    • Injury Prevention
    • Emergencies: preparedness and response

    This knowledge, in 61 languages, is pre-loaded on microSD chips for popular low-cost models of mobile phones – no signal is required, nor cost to download videos and other media. Users choose what they want to watch and listen to and when, wherever they happen to be.

    Source: HealthPhone

    Date of Publication: March 25, 2019