title: Health education and agency: a comprehensive program for young women in the Mixteca region of Mexico.
abstract: The Si yo estoy bien, mi familia también ("If I am OK then so is my family") is a health and agency education program that was provided over a period of 3 years to 39,000 rural women in Oaxaca, Mexico. The purpose of the article is to describe the development, implementation and evaluation of the program. The theoretical rationale and strategy of this intervention are described, as well as the construction of the program and the implementation. Moreover, an evaluation of the various stages of the program is provided, to enable an assessment of its efficacy, and the scope for dissemination and scaling up.
authors.affiliation: Instituto Mexicano de Investigación de Familia y Población.
authors.forename: Tere
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Venguer
authors.forename: Susan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Pick
authors.forename: Martin
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Fishbein
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006266:Health Education; D006307:Health Systems Agencies; D006801:Humans; D033181:Information Dissemination; D008800:Mexico; D010344:Patient Advocacy; D016730:Program Development; D019035:Rural Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration; D013663:Teaching / Q000379:methods; D002583:Uterine Cervical Neoplasms / Q000517:prevention & control