Women`s Health Center

BCDF and the Center for Regional Development at the Autonomous Popular University of the state of Puebla (UPAEP) are collaborating in order to build a Women`s Health Center in La Preciosita, a community located in the municipality of Santa Rita Tlahuapan. The goal of the Women`s Health Center is to catalyze the community to work together to ensure access to timely basic medical attention and education on disease prevention. The medical attention will consist of primary physician as well as specialists such as dentists, gynecologists, ophthalmologist, among others. Some of the topics for education services include nutrition, food preparation, organic farming, disease prevention, domestic violence and hygiene habits.

Monitoring: BCDF will monitor to ensure the community`s involvement in the construction process as well as administration of the center. We will get constant feedback from community members to ensure that they feel engaged in the entire process and are involved in critical decision making processes such as the types of medical services and educational courses offered.

Evaluation: BCDF will design an evaluation system that measures certain characteristics prior to the construction of Women`s Health Center and then after the center has been operating between one and two years.

In the short term we will measure the following results indicators:

ü Number of people attended by the Center

ü Timely access to medical attention

ü Knowledge of specific topics such as nutrition, disease prevention, etc

In the long term, we will measure the following outcome indicators:

ü Number of deaths prevented

ü Number of disabilities prevented

ü Frequency of illnesses in the community