Shaikh B T, Rabbani F, Rahim M
Health Systems Division, Department of Community Health Sciences, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan.
East Mediterr Health J. 2006 May-Jul;12(3-4):331-9.
Sensitizing health providers to customers' needs and women's health remains a challenge to the Pakistani health system. The Health Workers for Change methodology has been demonstrated to improve provider-client relationships in certain African and Latin American countries. This paper describes the experience of using Health Workers for Change participatory workshops in Pakistan to sensitize male and female health providers to gender issues. Health care providers identified the unmet needs of women clients as a function of individual, household and societal factors, and, unlike the African experience with this tool, not predominantly confined to factors associated with the health facility.
让医疗服务提供者了解客户需求以及关注女性健康，对巴基斯坦医疗系统而言仍是一项挑战。在某些非洲和拉丁美洲国家，已证明“变革健康工作者”方法能够改善医患关系。本文介绍了在巴基斯坦使用“变革健康工作者”参与式研讨会，使男女医疗服务提供者对性别问题更敏感的经验。医疗服务提供者将女性客户未得到满足的需求视为个人、家庭和社会因素的作用结果，而且与在非洲使用该工具的经验不同，这些需求并不主要局限于与医疗机构相关的因素。
