Performing arts as a social technology for community health promotion in northern Ghana
作者机构：Faculty of Arts and Faculty of Medicine and DentistryUniversity of Alberta382 FABEdmonton AB T6H 3S9Canada 9851 Waller CourtRichmond BC V7E5S9 Canada Grooming Dot OrgP.O.Box TL 1324Postal Code 00233House No.CH.EXT 14Bolga RoadAgric AreaTamaleNorthern RegionGhanaWest Africa Grooming Dot OrgP.O.Box TL 1817Post Code:00233TamaleNorthern RegionGhanaWest Africa Tamale Youth Home Cultural GroupP O Box 601Tamale N/RA Ext.32 HiltopGhanaWest Africa Faculty of Community StudiesSchool of Occupational and Public HealthRyerson UniversityRoom POD249350 Victoria StreetTorontoON M5B 2K3Canada
出 版 物：《Family Medicine and Community Health》 (家庭医学与社区卫生（英文）)
年 卷 期：2016年第4卷第1期
页 面：22-36页
学科分类：08[工学] 0812[工学-计算机科学与技术（可授工学、理学学位）]
基 金：This project was enabled by a Killam Cornerstone Grant together with additional contributions from the Faculty of Arts,the Office of Global Health in the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry,the Centre for Health and Culture at the University of Alberta,as well as a subgrant from the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs,Trade,and Development
主 题：Music dance drama edutainment community health sanitation malaria Ghana
摘 要：Objective:We present first-phase results of a performing arts public health intervention,‘Singing and Dancing for Health,’aiming to promote healthier behaviors in Ghana’s impoverished Northern *** hypothesize that live music and dance drama provide a powerful technology to overcome barriers such as illiteracy,lack of adequate media access,inadequate health resources,and entrenched sociocultural *** research objective is to evaluate this ***:In this first phase,we evaluated the effectiveness of arts interventions in improv-ing knowledge and behaviors associated with reduced incidence of malaria and cholera,focusing on basic information and simple practices,such as proper hand *** with the Youth Home Cultural Group,we codeveloped two‘dance dramas’delivering health messages through di-alog,lyrics,and drama,using music and dance to attract spectators,focus attention,infuse emotion,and socialize *** also designed knowledge,attitude,and behavior surveys as measurement *** purposive sampling,we selected three contrasting test villages in the vicinity,contrasting in size and *** cooperation of chiefs,elders,elected officials,and Gha-na Health Service officers,we conducted a baseline survey in each ***,we performed the interventions,and subsequently conducted follow-up *** a more qualitative approach,we also tracked a select subgroup,conducted focus group studies,and collected ***-veys were coded and data were analyzed by Epi ***:Both quantitative and qualitative methods indicated that those who attended the dance drama performances were likelier than those who did not attend to list the causal,preven-tive,and transmission factors of malaria and ***,the same attendees were likelier than nonattendees to list some activities they do to prevent malaria,cholera,and other sanitation-related diseases,proving that dance dramas were highly effective both in raisi
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