By Dr. Kunchok Gyaltsen | Ph.D. candidate UCLA School of Public Health
COMMUNITY HEALTH ASSESSMENT- Socioeconomic Status and Maternal and Child Health in Rural Tibetan Villages.
Tibetan Healing Fund with the guidance of Dr. Kunchok Gyaltsen conducted a Community Health Assessment, Socioeconomic Status and Maternal and Child Health in Rural Tibetan Villages. The assessment was published in March 2007 in conjunction with California Center for Population Research, University of California, Los Angeles.
The goal of the Community Health Assessment is to provide information on the lives and health status of rural Tibetans in Qinghai Province which can be used to design, evaluate and expand health, nutrition and social development programs to improve the lives of the Tibetan population. To accomplish this goal, we provided a broad overview for this sample of socio-demographic characteristics, the health-related environment (drinking water, sanitation, hygiene, the availability of health care providers), children's health, women’s health, fertility, and health-related practices (breastfeeding and immunization).
Some of the results showed that 93% of women give birth at home without the assistance of any medical professional or birthing attendant, 1% of respondents indicated that a Village Health Worker was present at delivery and only 4% delivered at a township or county hospital. Of the respondents, 79% used the copper IUD followed by 10% sterilization. Among the women who used an IUD, 45% experienced abdominal infections and 31% experienced uterine infections. Of the 279 women surveyed, none of the women knew or heard of Hepatitis B, STIs, HIV and AIDS. And none of the women know how these infections are contracted or what they could do to protect themselves against the infections. One out of the 279 women said she knew about TB.
Attached is a copy of the Community Health Assessment: Socioeconomic Status and Maternal and Child Health in Rural Tibetan Villages. You may also download a copy of the assessment from our website.
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