title: Health Workers for Change: a tool for promoting behaviour change among health providers.
abstract: Sensitizing health providers to customers' needs and women's health remains a challenge to the Pakistani health system. The Health Workers for Change methodology has been demonstrated to improve provider-client relationships in certain African and Latin American countries. This paper describes the experience of using Health Workers for Change participatory workshops in Pakistan to sensitize male and female health providers to gender issues. Health care providers identified the unmet needs of women clients as a function of individual, household and societal factors, and, unlike the African experience with this tool, not predominantly confined to factors associated with the health facility.
authors.affiliation: Health Systems Division, Department of Community Health Sciences, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan. babar.shaikh@aku.edu
authors.forename: B T
authors.initials: BT
authors.lastname: Shaikh
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Rabbani
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Rahim
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel / Q000208:ethnology*; D001294:Attitude to Health / Q000208:ethnology; D002321:Career Choice; D003466:Cultural Characteristics; D003659:Decision Making, Organizational; D004496:Education, Continuing / Q000458:organization & administration*; D005260:Female; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006282:Health Personnel / Q000193:education / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000523:psychology; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D033262:Narration; D015279:Organizational Culture; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D010154:Pakistan; D011287:Prejudice; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations; D015397:Program Evaluation; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration; D012381:Role Playing; D012945:Social Values; D016387:Women's Health; D014933:Women's Rights