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Effectiveness of the Census-Based Impact Oriented Approach

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In the rural highlands of Guatemala, a community health worker made a routine home visit and encountered a severely malnourished child who had been having repeated bouts of diarrhea and pneumonia. By providing education to the mother to improve the child’s nutritional status, by improving the hygienic situation in the home, and by providing appropriate antibiotic treatment for episodes of pneumonia, the child returned to good nutrition and health. Without this kind of outreach and support, this child would very likely have died. We have seen and heard about many similar cases in which health programs using the framework we will be describing in this chapter have been able to prevent deaths of children and save the lives of mothers with complications related to pregnancy.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    The work in Bolivia established by Andean Rural Health Care is now directed by a Bolivia NGO, Consejo de Salud Rural Andino (2012).

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    For an online tutorial on the method, see http://barrieranalysis.fhi.net. For a narrated presentation on this method, see http://www.caregroupinfo.org/vids/BAVidIpad/story.html.

  3. 3.

    One type of positive deviance study which focuses on nutritional status is the Local Determinants of Malnutrition Study methodology. For a narrated presentation on this approach, see http://www.caregroupinfo.org/vids/LDMVidiPad/story.html.

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Perry, H.B., Davis, T.P. (2015). Effectiveness of the Census-Based Impact Oriented Approach. In: Beracochea, E. (eds) Improving Aid Effectiveness in Global Health. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-2721-0_21

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