Keywords
Environmental health; Health perception; Children’s drawing; Tanzania
Abstract
Population’s health is related to the social context in which its members live. The aim of this study is to investigate the Newlands (Tanzania) children perception have of the environmental factors that may affect their health, in order to facilitate the design of Health Promotion training programs in the future. The study uses children’s drawing technique, based on the observation and analysis of different factors that appear on a child’s drawings. The results shows a high index of images of violence and malnutrition as consequences of social, economic, religious and cultural phenomena that Newland’s children population might engage with. Two different trends were observed: a female one associated with correct eating habits, and masculine one where unhealthy habits were prevalent. The results obtained provide a wide spectrum of ideas that help design Environmental and Health Promotion courses, in order to train the child population to anticipate and manage environmental health risks.
Citation
Vazquez MS and Sanz PG. Health Diagnosis through Drawings in a Tanzanian Child Population. SM J Public Health Epidemiol. 2018; 4(2): 1050.