The Role Of Education And Communication
Identification of priorities and emergency needs are very much critical in addressing a sensitive issue like child mortality. After identifying the key areas of improvement, which should be the ground level or very basic things, plans got to be formulated in a wider context.
To maintain and sustain a health care plan to good effect requires ground level or grass root level participation as well. No plans will be successful, unless it is formulated and implemented with the co-operation of community. Here, when it matters to child mortality, community health care centers should be made involved equally well for a proper identification of priorities and requirements of a particular locality. This should be done simply because, community health care centers of respective localities will certainly have a crystal clear picture of what needs to be done in that particular locality.
As a matter of fact, plans and strategies adopted by different countries with the co-operation of local community health care centers will definitely turn to be fruitful. In a macro sense, all countries, which are developing and under developed, will come up with strategies and methodologies to tackle this haunting problem of child mortality, but it has to be mentioned that the basic plans and strategies will almost be the same for all countries since the core problem they face is same, all the times. The issue of child mortality is a universal concern and the ways will almost be the same and consistent to tackle it.
Years have witnessed lots of interventions being made by authorities as well as organizations to arrive at a feasible plan to solve the issue. Whatever be the plan, whoever has intervened, the consistent elements towards achieving the declination of child mortality will always remain consistent. If you take these for examples, the two essential ingredients that should be mixed homogeneously to produce desired result in child mortality issue are education and communication.
Education is the only way to make people aware of what child mortality is and why their children are suffering from that. Here, education can otherwise be termed as counseling or an awareness program. By making primary education compulsory for children, authorities can look forward for a better result in all aspects of that communities' life including child mortality. Communication stands out as the second key aspect. Proper communication has to be made in the grass root level to get a proper understanding of prevailing conditions and effective communication has to be done educate people to lead a hygienic and healthy life.
Several governments of developing countries as well as under developed countries have made it mandatory for physicians to serve people or locality which is prone to health care issues. To achieve the "Millennium development goal", this step has turned out as a turning point, as young physicians and doctors take it as a service they offer to a particular community, who are suffering. They will be able to communicate well with the people to properly identify what needs to be done to control child mortality.