Dreyfus Health Foundation in Romania

The Dreyfus Health Foundation in Romania

Program Components

Problem Solving for Better Health® (PSBH®) - a program based on the belief that answers to many health problems can be found locally, by looking within, rather than waiting for solutions from the outside.

Problem Solving for Better Health Initiative™ (PSBHI™) - a program that begins where PSBH® leaves off, moving from a focus on individual projects to community-wide projects, involving multiple sectors of the community working together.

Problem Solving for Better Health Nursing™ (PSBHN™) - a program that unites nurses in a mission to improve health worldwide.

Communications for Better Health® (CBH®)- a program that focuses on improving accessibility to health information - information that is essential to problem solving.

February 1999 - 2004 - Program status

PSBH® workshops and follow-up workshops – 18
PSBHI™ workshop – 1
Participants - 513 : nurses, social workers, nursing school teachers, nurse students, doctors, teachers, nurse teachers, psyhologists, engineer, biologists.
Projects - 457

CBH® - 4 digests published - download*

Health/Social areas being addressed: Educating patients with conjunctivitis, mastectomy, colostomy, hepatic cirrhosis Prevention of cardiovascular system diseases Prevention of intra-hospital infections Infectious diseases: B and C hepatitis Educating young mothers Training nurses in laparoscopic surgery Nursing care standards Nursing care for children and adolescents in school and educational institutions Nursing care for disabled children Participation of nurses in health promotion program in hospital

Partners Ministry of Health County Directions of Public Health Romanian Nursing Association Nursing school Ministry of Education County Directions of Child Protection NGO-s

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