Promotion of Rural Health: Experience of an Indian NGO

Abstract

Promotion of rural health has become a major agenda of policy makers. Health can be more properly viewed as an index of human adaptation to a micro ecological niche. From this point of view, health management can mean the full visualization of the minimal requirements of clinical–curative inputs in health planning and management. A variety of factors have promoted increasing interest in prevention as a health care practice in the country. Numerous non‐government organizations (NGOs) are working to improve the health quality of rural India. In describing a rural health promotion project, in which a social worker played a key role, this article illustrates how social work practitioners can bring their many skills to bear in efforts to promote health. In this paper an effort has been made to share the experience of an NGO in health related project.