health department

Health Department

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

  • Free referrals to
    • Laboratories
    • physicians
    • Accommodation centers for addiction treatment
    • Parturition services
 
  • Referrals with financial cost
    • Surgery, medicine, follow-up treatment
    • Kidney infection, disease, genetic testing, thyroid testing and anemia

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