COMMUNITY INTERVENTIONS

FOR HEALTH IN MEXICO

Jorge A. Ramírez, Teresa Fernández, Beatriz Champagne

Mexico

Mexico City

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Intervention and control areas

XochimilcoControl area

TlalpanIntervention area

Background to CIH in Mexico City Community work estabished in Tlalpan in 1998World Heart Day has been celebrated since 2000Epidemiogical studies taking place since 2001

Anthropological perspectiveCommunity coalitions formed within micro-regions, utilising cultural and socio-economic characteristics

Pueblos: rural, traditional Barrios: urban, traditional

Colonias: urban Blocks of flats: urban

CIH innovations in Mexico City

Technology was used to:

Track the physical activity of school children by geographic information system

Allow direct data entry from questionnaires onto lap-tops by school children

CIH innovations in Mexico CityDigital maps used to

identify socio-economic status by street block

Body analysers used in data collection

CIH Team in Mexico