An Intervention Plan for Ensenada, Mexico

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This paper analyzes the community health situation in Ensenada, Mexico and highlights some of the problems in the community, including environmental problems based both on internal practices and external policies. It attempts to adapt the six goals of the Medicine/Public Health Initiative, designed in the United States to bring together professionals in both fields in order to address community health issues, to devise an intervention plan for Ensenada.

Outline
Introduction
Adapting the Medicine/Public Health Initiative
Engaging the Community in the Effort
Changing the Education Process
Establishing Joint Research Efforts
Developing New, Shared Definitions of Illness and Wellness
Joint Effort to Provide Health Care/Joint Effort in Health Assessment
The Cluster Committee
COPC in Ensenada
Evaluating the Program

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"This is obviously a community-wide endeavor. If health care professionals, or public health people simply seek to develop, and impose, their definitions on the community, community members are not likely to accept those definitions as their own. They may resist, rebel, and see public health professionals as adversaries, rather than as allies in their attempt to lead enjoyable, valuable, and healthy lives. For example, if health care professionals and public health workers decree that certain diets are unhealthy and undermine the public health, they may run into problems because certain foods are associated with a culture and with the full enjoyment of it. This does not mean that community health workers need to say that high fat foods are good for the heart, but that they need to work with the community to maintain important foods culturally, while adapting them to make them more healthful or otherwise altering the menu to make up for problem items."

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