The project will design & disseminate easy to understand integrated health response 3-5 minute short videos for face-face/on-line learning, social/broadcast media to facilitate risk mitigation, prevention, psychosocial support & tele-therapy. To address information crisis, our community engagement initiative focus on women, caregivers, frontline health care providers & elderly not reached with information thru door-door visits, home-care, mobile van, & outreaches to reach maximum risk target.
Women are 14 times more likely to die in a public health emergency due to existing inequalities in terms of vulnerabilities, access to information, & ability to respond. Women in gender-biased settings are impacted by COVID-19 owing to more restrictive policies & their care giving roles. Frontline health & social workers, home caregivers have no equitable access to emergency care capacity building. COVID-19 risk communication could help to prevent new waves & slow COVID-19 spread in communities.
Mid-level health care providers holds potential to improve risk communication if given right support & materials. Short multimedia videos & narrative for education & communication with no excess detail, no complex jargon and technology challenges will be designed. The videos will be subtitled & voiced over to enhance comprehension and utility for women, mid-level cadres, caregivers etc to ease their understanding of COVID-19 risks mitigation, preventive measures & care thru community engagement
Videos generated for education, communication a will build capacity of mid-level health workforce, potential vaccine recipients, caregivers and lessons learn will inform national policies, to improve COVID19 care & resilience systems. Improvement opportunities will be identified, and disseminated widely, thereby enabling the nation to more effectively serve difficult-to-reach populations. Customised video for transfer of learning, empowering national, district & community decision making.
This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).
