The health unit of “Pooyesh Child Lovers Association” has organized its activities in the following five areas in order to prevent increasing physical injuries, ensure the health of children and families at risk, as well as provide health services through education.
A)Health education (workshop): Examples of workshops in this unit are as follows
Target group | Period of holding | Description |
Children | Every week | Screening for vision, hearing, pediculosis, personal health education, ear care education, child abuse prevention, oral health education, the importance of calcium intake, healthy and unhealthy nutrition, anemia, flu |
women | Once a month | Anemia, healthy food, contraception, women’s health, anger management and blood pressure |
men | Every two months | Medicine and Psychology |
B)Screening
Target group | Description |
Children | Vision, Infectious diseases, Spine disease, Thyroid, Growth disorders, Epilepsy and parasites |
women | Diabetes, hypertension, tuberculosis and infectious and internal diseases |
men | Complete medical checkup, blood pressure and diabetes |
Teachers | Complete medical checkup |
garbage field staff | AIDS test |
C)Prevention and treatment
Hepatitis vaccine for children and garbage field staff
D)Complementary nutrition programs
Nutrition | Target group | Description |
Iron | Girls | One pill per week for each person |
Milk | Children | Four times a week |
Women and men | Once a week | |
Teachers | Once a week | |
Multivitamin tablets | All chilld | Three times a week |