In recent years there has been a ste-adllr increasing interest in the okal aspects of medicine and public health. The essential elements in this episode are that the epidemiological work of tracing the course of the disease through the population concerned an intetious one. These elements are among the moat characteristic of the development of public health in the last 100 years or more.
Ideally, the study should include the natural history of infectious diseases in the community, their causes, their spread and movements within the population. An American Nation 1 report (10) shows that more than half of the hospitals in the United Nations. In the future, the t8 epidemiology will be applied not only to the major diseases, but also to the non-infectious diseases.
In t'act, 80 far 'bas the pendulum swings, that 1t i po bi toda1 of the distribution tbl'OUgh a population both of the ease and the Cau888 of the di to speak. Thu, 1n flU-mmary, significant feature of rn h alth rvicGn 1.8, the clock for the health of a community is not only applicable to the, quality and scope of the technically expert rvic,s or dis e reventive facii.
EARt 1.. THE PROBLEM
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- B APT E ,R II
The importance attached to municipal organization in relation to health care is evident from the 1941 report of a c'tte~ of the Ri n Public Health Society (18). Cooley (27) in the United States got there early. n rnl de:tln1 tie or de prl ary roup. and no apol for dol o n. different things, but chlen in that. the social nature and the ideal. It is a certain ta 1.0 or individuality. The size of the groups is 18 rotating, 8 in the degree of intimacy within. them., Ith ducat i on metho hO'W8'Ver, have tended to be.
Since the cation referred to these 2 partial .. answers ) t This means that this question along with other studies would also include the history h of all memories . e hall continuo ourselvc" to th. f ledge, ttit ~de~ and bah iour usually co si er im ort lt ~r heal th. to te.,t t Hh t extont primer' group have. borore rolnt1ly uniform in peat 1 ; 0 characteristics are important for health education. Thus, for example, it is much easier to d •• lgni educational pr e for cultural h 0 en unity .. ace aary cau o~ th cultural lace by rc p na .. nO' pre os re en member. tev r he circumstenoes, according .. t for health .n for health duea-. tion ll~oc1all~ ; tl lether thoy are, and ,othor. she or tr tho me bors to. nt on th view of the member, ttl ae poll tical. seriously, perhaps his main chance for success. would like to connect the question of disrespect for religion. to political views. In it he •• put the connection in oup' .. the perception of 'ter' and thereby connected the social lnal side with socially11 relevant, .this It_ducati functlon ma1 good n1 in aotion tor rel iOU8 ob_rvances.
In other words, if a connection can be made between this material and the tensile strength of the mber group, it would suggest the possibility. Although within the group there is likely to be continuation, as it concerns the health characteristics of the group, making me a necessary target of health promotion. It's about time it will probably be a . On the other hand, this may be the result of experiences of the members individually or in the group, which have relatively little connection with the intrinsic, that is, social.
SECTION II
CHAPTER I
She withdrew it, but the membership of women in their private capacity does not represent any organization today, although it was about the cooperation of organizations of the century. The health work of the Institute had to follow closely the lines of health education elael\lhllt.- Although there are quite asme'xtenaive ver I U88 or. In the urban African city hip you t d written,. a atage .. there had been and tea4 was the problem of obesity in women .. c be it, to recognize a required action and that vas.
At the moment of decision-making, if the bad fbi lty arl90 t t of the Institute, hlth r be taken. As it was decided then, more or le88 with mom's prompting since the Q sity program. the health educator .. would approach ou vife in each of a general sample of. The familyQr of every simple h,ome 1), an 84 vh r G e would be interested in having her reasonable friends. to know the cuss v rio aspct.s of the Institute program wit t 81th edu. pproact od rejectG it, sn appoint nt w a.de and it vas.
It is not necessary to point out the special nature of these groups at this age, and we will occasionally notice them later in the stu,. In this respect, they differ markedly from the secondary scrolls of most health e4ucat1oIl programs.
CHAPZER II
The diet reported by each of the 92 women was evaluated according to the foods in the different food groups considered. After inspecting the diets, it was decided that they should be noted in these terms viz. The index of homogeneity in all aspects of the anani tat ions for each group of primary and random 8etas is shown.
The home environment of each of the 92 women we examined and divided into 2 categories. This exploration of even aoiently more relpectable 1nveltigator in the field involves us in the conceptual entanglement from which it is. Thus, the existence of mutual selections up to 80me reduces the cohesiveness of the a8 group as a whole.h.
However, before the exact nature of the tormulae could be determined, certain issues had to be resolved. Mutual first choice where the individual of the couple is not chosen by others. When the group analyzed regarding friendship choices, the number of mutual choices made by the different pairs was determined.
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Of course, the findings here indicate that the power to influence may not be supported by any. It should be remembered that in most experimental situations described in the literature, poverty in intluenc. It will be seen that the interviewer named other members of the defined primary group and asked questions.
In the first place, we can assume that clo88 friendship, whatever the grounds for choosing friends originally means that some characteristics of the members the. Appendix D.' contains the basic data of the oomputations in 0 parinB the high, moderate and low cohesive groups. Pi TO 1 to 7 Bow tIe comparison of homogeneity between the high, moderate and low coherent sets on eaoh of the health.
The results of this study confirm the dominant role that illness and raising children play among the health topics in the daily life of the women in this society. In ak1ng usa of primary group of this ind, much of the content of hel d ction must be strongly related to 111n. Then dealing with eaoh of the 21 groups, the woman with the highest score was placed in the high ohoioe Itatul oategory.
Again, Itatua was assessed in relation to the member's position in her own group and not in relation to the entire sample of 89 women. With most of the variables, both those with continuous8 and diacritical scores, it was possible to give the deviation. The direction of the deviation was not taken tor thi8 variable as illness and attitude to the Institute.
No woman in the high-choice category had better hygiene conditions than the others in her group, and only one of the low-quality women did. Some other findings, although the differences were found not to be "significant", appeared to have a slight trend. Coverage of the primary group in social societies and the impact of t1s development on thought in it lth education 1 causing new theoretical and pr .otic poesib11i fees.
When the tormula was available, grouped 3 random sets of 21. each were created from the original 92 women to increase the conservatism of the test. StrriC'f.A Report of the Department of Soc •. Prev.n_ VI and Family Medicine'!, Univer81ty ot Natal.
