From alma ata to dakar: Health for all, education for all
https://doi.org/10.32412/pjohns.v27i1.541
- Author:
José Florencio F. Lapeña, Jr.
1
,
2
Author Information
1. Department of Otorhinolaryngology College of Medicine, University of the Philippines Manila
2. Department of Otorhinolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery East Avenue Medical Center, Diliman, Quezon City
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- MeSH:
Education
- From:
Philippine Journal of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery
2012;27(1):4-5
- CountryPhilippines
- Language:English
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Abstract:
Like the Alma Ata declaration1 of “health for all by the year 2000,” the Dakar framework for action2 and “education for all by 2015” will not be achieved as envisioned. Of the many determinants and barriers to universal access to health and education, the intersection of health with education itself represents a major barrier. The social determinants of health3 can themselves pose barriers to education. Maternal and infant mortality and morbidity, homelessness, hunger and malnutrition, poor sanitation, lack of security and life-sustaining resources impact on both health and education, and “damaged brains and bodies” cannot learn optimally.
Health education aims to address these barriers in a special manner and on several levels, beginning with pre-school formal and non-formal community-based health education of children, their parents and community health workers, through formal kindergarten to grade 12 education of schoolchildren (the Philippine Government K-12 implementation) as well as nonformal education of out-of-school youth (Cf: the “Kareton Klassroom” concept of 2011 CNN Hero
of the Year Efren Peñaflorida). Tertiary undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate education in health professions and allied medical professions is the unique mission of the University of the
Philippines Manila, as the National Health Sciences Center. Together with other public and private institutions, government and non-government organizations and the private sector (including the Philippine Society of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, the Philippine College of Surgeons, and the Philippine Medical Association), tertiary health education should aim to make
an impact on all other levels of health education in particular, and education in general. This effect should happen during the process of education, and not just after — a synchronous multilevel model that is well-entrenched in the medical and health care professions. Consultants teach residents and medical students, residents teach medical students and health workers, medical students teach health workers, and so on, as all teach patients and their care-givers also.
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