CASE STUDY OF WOMEN HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION

Case Study of Women Health Care Foundation

Case Study of Women Health Care Foundation

Introduction: Bringing Health to the Community

    The front backyard of Emerlita Domingo, a community wellbeing employee (CHW) in the town of Barangay Putatan, resembles a waiting room at a doctor's office.

    Low benches line one edge of the little dirt backyard where women and juvenile young children sit patiently under a makeshift canopy of cotton fabric bed wrappings and slips, the better to defend them from the early after noon heat of a summer day (Baruch 2008 ). At the other end of the backyard, a reduced timber bed and table assist as a provisional agency, where a doctor and her male aide preside over pre-consultation methods, for example heaviness and body-fluid force estimation and initial meetings with patients. Two women, one of them a health technologist and the other the head of the teaching program for community wellbeing employees, take ascribe of assembling the patients' donations and payments for the medicines, which are dispensed from a nylon bag.

    The medical practitioner has set up her agency in Emerlita's dwelling room. Dr. Myrna Hernandez meetings and examines the patients, then after each discussion, yells out the title of the next patient. At times, friends should hurry out of the backyard to summon a persevering that has gone home.

 

Women's Health: An Overview

To realise the work of the Women's Health Care Foundation, it is first essential to realise the context of women's wellbeing in the Philippines. Until lately, women's wellbeing anxieties were considered to be amply assisted by maternal and progeny wellbeing (MCH) programs. Increasingly, although, women's supports have emphasized that MCH programs manage not rendezvous women's total wellbeing desires (Duden 2003). Danguilan and Verzosa1 claim that looking at women solely in periods of motherhood tends to disregard the premise that women have a right to good wellbeing, no issue what their maternal rank, and that wellbeing is a significant, vital worth by itself.

The MCH set about does not take into account the wellbeing desires of women who are not with child, neither does it accommodate women's altering desires all through their life cycle. Limiting women's wellbeing services to maternal and progeny care entails many breaches in the provision of comprehensive wellbeing look after women and young women (Dodds 2004). For example:

Health of the young female child. Across heritage, women's wellbeing difficulties start in infancy. Young women may be subject to inequities in the circulation of house assets (food, apparel, learning, leisure activities) and responsibilities (such as look after siblings).2

Adolescent health. In the Philippines, chastity before wedding ceremony is highly valued. On mean, the first sexy know-how happens at the age of 18 for both sexes, 3 with 23 as the median age of first birth for Filipino women. However, one in every 15 teenagers is a mother or with child with her first child.

STDs. Sexually conveyed infections (STDs), encompassing HIV, are a large risk to women's wellbeing, ...