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as peacemakers.I have seen  \nwe must seek the good of the whole human race and  \n\"to keep women in dialogue with one another  \nnot just the good of any one nation or race.\"  \nabout matters that concern them deeply”  \n—From\"A Change of Heart\"by Bily Craham.Sojoumers (AuRust 1979)  \nCONCERN  \n\n| Second-Class Postage  \u003Cbr>PAID AT  \u003Cbr>New York,NY  \u003Cbr>and at Additional  \u003Cbr>Mailing Offices   |\n| --- |\n\nMAGAZINE/NEWSFOLD (ISSN-0010-5763)  \nis published monthly at475 Riverside Dr.,New York,NY,by United Presbyterian Women,United Presbyterian Church,USA.Second-class postage paid at New York,NY,and at additional mailing offices.Postmaster:Send form 3579 to address below.A subscription to CONCERN MAGAZINE/NEWSFOLDincludes four issues in magazine format,eightin newsfold format.Subscription:1 year,$6.Payment must accompany order.Allow six to eight weeksfor new subscription or change of address to become effective.Editor:Jane JarrardAssociate Editor:Ann YearginAddress all subscription andBusiness/Promotion Manager:Betty Parkinsoneditorial correspondence to:Art/Design:Paul NonnastCONCERN,Room 454,Subscriptions Manager:Hazel Harken475 Riverside Drive,Treasurer:Marilyn ClarkNew York,NY 10115  \n# A New Approach to Health Care\n\nThe child being treated in the picture aboveis one of many patients being helped by a newstyle of village health program,part of the ex-tension service of the Silliman University Med-ical Center in Negros Oriental in the Philip-pines.While her mother looks on,two barrio(village)health aides clean an infected wound.Claudia cleans the wound as she has beentaught by a small team of health workers whoconduct training classes,then visit the barrioabout once a week.Claudia has been selectedby her barrio committee to take this training andto be the health worker.She can help motherswith prenatal and postnatal care,weigh babiesregularly and keep charts of their growth.Shecan provide first aid and immunizations,treatsimple coughs,colds and fevers,and refer peo-ple with more difficult problems to a centralclinic.And she can make home visits to discussmatters dealing with village sanitation and fam-ily planning.She also knows how to conducta community survey and to keep simple statis-tics.  \nClaudia,the barrio health aide,represents avery special,new kind of health worker in manyof the poor and depressed countries in theworld.She symbolizes the turning around ofhealth care so that the main health work is doneat the village level instead of the hospital andwhere preventive care is seen as more reward-ing.She is also joined in this preventive care byothers who are concerned for better agriculturewhich helps improve nutrition,for clean waterfor sanitation,for village crafts and producewhich bring income,and for other aspects ofgeneral education.  \nThe team that visits the barrio each week notonly includes a doctor or a nurse but also spe-cialists in sanitation,agriculture and communitydevelopment.They are welcomed by the head  \nTwo barrio health  \nworkers(I and r)  \ntreat a child  \nwith an infected  \nwound as the mother  \n(center)looks on,  \nNegros Oriental,  \nPhilippines.  \nof the barrio,and they give talks,hear reportsand discuss developments with the fifty or sopeople who attend the barrio meeting.Togetherthey help the people plan for their own healthand well being.  \nThis new approach to health care is beingencouraged in about one hundred barrios inNegros Oriental by the extension programs ofSilliman University.The Women's SummerMedical Offering of UPW has provided strongsupport for this program,both in the educationof leaders and the provision of services.Thisbarrio health program has been used as a train-ing place for the special primary health careenablers who are receivingsupport in their train-ing from the Summer Medical Offering.  \nThis new empha","cbCaitx7E011Qv3i","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaitx7E011Qv3i","pdf",2500483,11,"English","# A 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