Training of Health Promotion Agents: An Intervention in the Baoulé Community of Kongodékro (North- Central Côte d’Ivoire)

Abstract

Public health problems in Côte d’Ivoire are dominated by infectious and parasitic diseases, the most important of which are malaria, diarrheal diseases and pneumonia. Children and pregnant women are the most vulnerable and affected populations [1]. To this alarming situation is added the progression of chronic and degenerative diseases. From this complex health situation comes a life expectancy backwards. How can the vast majority of the population benefit from a viable health at a lower cost and reduce the burden of disease in Côte d’Ivoire? The relevant assumption for a sustainable health for the entire population is the establishment of a health promotion system anchored in lifestyle. It is an immersion framework in which the different social strata of the population take charge of their own health by acting on the risk factors [2]. This dynamic health framework requires coordinated action [3]. In this context, nurses, midwives and doctors are recruited from the community health training program at Alassane Ouattara University in Bouaké. They are trained in a two-year cycle with the skills of health promotion agents. It is for these auditors to strengthen their ability to support the community in order to define the priorities of health problems, solutions, action plans to change behavior. To be convinced, a simulation aimed at putting auditors in a field intervention situation took place in the village of Kongodékro. In reality, it is about implementing the development and implementation of a community health project. This intervention is understood as an emulation based on the values, knowledge and know-how of stakeholders beneficial to the health of populations. This dynamic training process is based on a particular approach.