--- abstract: "The present study was carried out to assess the impact of health awareness package through ‘Child-to-Family' strategy for empowerment of knowledge, change in the attitude and practice regarding communicable diseases and nutritional deficiency diseases among rural sectors of Paschim Medinipur district of West Bengal from April 2009 to October 2009. School children of 523 from VII to IX standard and their family members (25%) were included in the study. Health awareness level was monitored by self-administered peer reviewed questionnaire method. The study showed that majority of the participants had poor knowledge regarding the concerned diseases at pre-awareness stage. But after imparting the awareness package, knowledge about the said diseases improved markedly in both children and their family members. Therefore, school children have the potential for transmitting their newly acquired knowledge to their family members. The present study enlighted that ‘Child-to-Family' Strategy is powerful tool for community health improvement at rural sectors." altloc: - http://www.ojhas.org/issue34/2010-2-2.htm chapter: ~ commentary: ~ commref: ~ confdates: ~ conference: ~ confloc: ~ contact_email: ~ creators_id: - ~ - ~ - ~ - debidas_ghosh@yahoo.co.in creators_name: - family: Maiti given: S honourific: '' lineage: '' - family: Ali given: KM honourific: '' lineage: '' - family: Dash given: SS honourific: '' lineage: '' - family: Ghosh given: D honourific: '' lineage: '' date: 2010-07-30 date_type: published datestamp: 2010-09-13 03:52:29 department: ~ dir: disk0/00/00/70/01 edit_lock_since: ~ edit_lock_until: 0 edit_lock_user: ~ editors_id: - Kakkilaya BS editors_name: - family: Kakkilaya given: Srinivas honourific: Dr lineage: '' eprint_status: archive eprintid: 7001 fileinfo: /style/images/fileicons/application_pdf.png;/7001/1/2010%2D2%2D2.pdf full_text_status: public importid: ~ institution: ~ isbn: ~ ispublished: pub issn: ~ item_issues_comment: [] item_issues_count: 0 item_issues_description: [] item_issues_id: [] item_issues_reported_by: [] item_issues_resolved_by: [] item_issues_status: [] item_issues_timestamp: [] item_issues_type: [] keywords: 'Health awareness, Child-to-family strategy, School children' lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:57:43 latitude: ~ longitude: ~ metadata_visibility: show note: ~ number: 2 pagerange: ~ pubdom: TRUE publication: Online Journal of Health and Allied Sciences publisher: Dr. B.S. Kakkilaya refereed: TRUE referencetext: "1.\tSiwach M. Impact of health education programme on the knowledge and practices of school children regarding personal hygiene in rural panipat. Int J Edu Sci. 2009;1(2):115-118. \r\n2.\tAras RY, Gurav RB, Mate SD, Pai NP. Evaluation of knowledge of school children for the role of health educator in the immunization programme. Ind. J Comm Med. 1992;17:161-163.\r\n3.\tBiswas AB, Roy AK, Das KK. Impact on Nutrition Education on Rural school children of Burdwan, West Bengal. Ind. J of Comm Med. 1991;14:29-32.\r\n4.\tSunder Lal. Health and development of school children. Ind. J Comm Med. 1998;23:3-5.\r\n5.\tGoel S, Sing A. Health awareness of high school students. Ind. J Comm Med. 2007;32:192-194. \r\n6.\tNath SR, Mohsin M, Chowdhury AM. Health knowledge of children in Bangladesh: An exploratory study. Public Health. 1997;111:311-5. \r\n7.\tBiswas AB, Roy AK, Sen AK, Biswas R. A study of the impact of health education imparted to school children on their knowledge, attitude and practices in regard to personal hygiene. Ind. J Pub Health. 1990;34(2):87-92.\r\n8.\tBhore PD, Bhore CP, Powar S, Nade AL, Kartikeyan S, Chaturvedi RM. Child-to-parent education: a pilot study. Indian J Lepr. 1992;64(1):51-7" relation_type: [] relation_uri: [] reportno: ~ rev_number: 20 series: ~ source: ~ status_changed: 2010-09-13 03:52:29 subjects: - OJHAS succeeds: ~ suggestions: ~ sword_depositor: ~ sword_slug: ~ thesistype: ~ title: 'Impact of ‘Child-to-Family’ Strategy for Health Awareness Improvement at Rural Sectors of Paschim Medinipur District, West Bengal' type: journale userid: 4338 volume: 9