Publication year:
1992
This article considers the use of PRA in the general area of health both in determining what peoples' percieved health needs are and in designing interventions. There has been a recent increase of interest in applications of PRA in this area. This paper documents this increase in interest. It considers issues in this respect, the first being that the type of information supplied tends to be localised and cannot form the basis for widespread intervention. Linked with this concern is the inability of professionals such as epidemiologists to accept the validity of the type of information that PRA methods can provide.
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The final section of this paper is a consideration of problems associated with the use of PRA in the health area. In this area, the framework for analysis is established 'outside', and the question is how active participation can be assured in this sort of external agenda. Unfortunately she does not answer the question of whether this is the right source for this agenda. The second question is how PRA can avoid being a manipulative process used to enable development professionals to extract data.
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07-Dec