<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"></div><div>Hi Mario,</div><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
the three low-range facilities are called: "Puesto de Salud", "Subcentro <br>
de Salud", and "Centro de Promoción de Salud". I've never seen one of <br>
them, personally speaking, I'm just interpreting the information at <br>
<a href="http://www.minsa.gob.pa/cartera-salud/cartera-de-servicio-por-nivel-de-atencion" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.minsa.gob.pa/cartera-salud/cartera-de-servicio-por-nivel-de-atencion</a> <br>
and asking local people for help understanding what I'm reading.<br>
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The "centro de promoción" does not offer any other support but by <br>
education and communication. allegedly: "Organización comunitaria, <br>
Participación Social, Educación y comunicación para la Salud." <br>
supposing they do exist and they do provide the service, I would not <br>
know how to tag these.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Are these like NGOs doing health promotion or a service organized by health authorities?</div><div> If it's the latter, are they constituted by volunteers from the village/community? Could these be considered as "community health workers"?<br></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
summarizing, to represent the lower end of the Panamanian healthcare <br>
facilities, apart from the mentioned proposed new categories: <br>
healthcare=nurses (technicians/engineers), and healthcare=community_* <br>
(stagists/capacitated/?), we als need to tag the periodicity of the <br>
extra presence, and the prevention/education/information function.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Regarding the periodicity of the extra presence, is this information official or do you think it varies for each facility and should be collected separately for each? How likely could this be?</div><div><br></div><div>Thank you,</div><div>Claire<br></div></div></div></div>