Question

What are the pros and cons of using lay health advisors? Name two each and explain.

Answer 1

PROS OF LAY HEALTH ADVISORS:

• They may be familiar person to the public belongs to the particular community, so health related message can be communicated easily among them.
• The public have more trust on them, their words.
• Can make effective change to follow healthy behaviour and healthy life styles.
• Lay health advisors are the person have an important role in promotion of the public health and the prevention of the diseases.
• Lay health advisors can help to adopt any family planning methods by the community people.
• They help to make awareness about importance of immunization.
• They encourage the women the above 30 yrs to do mammogram to identify the breast cancer earlier.
• They encourage the women the above 30 yrs to do VIA VILI test to identify the cervical cancer earlier.

CONS OF LAY HEALTH ADVISORS:

• The lay health advisor should be properly trained. If it is failed leads to communicate wrong information.
• He/she should be an accepted by the people of the particular community, the words of them should be accepted by all the people is sometimes difficult.
• They can be used to work in the aspect of curative or treatment.
• They may sometimes failure to maintain confidentiality of the information.