Enfluence of a new model of communication health education "Woman for environmental health" club on people's knowledge and practice on environmental hygiene

ABSTRACT

Communication Health Education (CHE) is the cheap sollution but it achieves high level of effectiveness and sustain in health care. In this study, we applied a new model of CHE-Club “Woman for health and environment". Objectives: assessing effectiveness of applying the Club "Woman for health and environment" on people's knowledge and practices for environmental hygiene in Minh Khai precinct, Phu Ly town. Method and subjects: Interventive study with 2 groups (case and control). Study subjects include households and women representing the households. The sample size for each group is 250. Assessing efficiency based on efficiency index. Results and conclude The club “Woman for environmental health" resulted in improvement on people's knowledge and practices of environmental hygiene. The knowledge and practices have improved significantly comparing to before intervention and are much higher than in the control group (the efficiency indices achieve 22.7-187.9%).