GRF 2nd One Health Summit 2013: Presentation by Andrea Frances Schuman, Center for Scientific and Social Studies

1. Center for Scientific and Social Studies: Mérida,
Yucatán/Atlanta, Georgia
Centro de Estudios Científicos y Sociales
Andrea Schuman, Directora

2. Definition of the Problem
Phenomenon of interest:
- Water quality
Grounding methodology:
- Popular Education (PE)
Structuring methodology:
- Participatory Action
Research (PAR)
Water transport, Pochote style

3. Preliminary Planning: key concepts
Pollution, contamination
Etiology (origens of illness)
 Illness/wellness
Consequences for human health

4. Fundamental Problem: water quality
schematic of the first cycle of teaching-learning
Specialized
Concepts
Context of the
Construction of
Knowledge
Logic of the
Action
Teaching
Collective
Subject
Action/Reflection

5. Definition of the aspects of interest of
the phenomenon under study
 How intense is the illness
provoked by the consumption
of contaminated water?
(ocurrance of intestinal
problems caused by
bacteria, amoebas or virus)
 The existence (or not) of nodes
of infection (extention and/or
focalization of the problem);
 The probable generators of the
contamination (cause(es) of
the problem and sites for
action)
 The general ideas of the
residents about the water
problem
Primary water source

6. Participant researchers learn to prepare the
test tubes – prescriptive teaching
Water Transport, Pochote

7. Fundamental Problem: water quality
schematic of the second cycle of teaching-learning
Explicación
Demostración
Practica asistida
Practica
independiente

8. Design/Implementation of the
Intervention
Techniques for data
collection
– The Community
Inventory
• Interview Guide
• Interviews with
women in each
household

9. Community Mapping

10. Filtration Barrel and Insulated Box for
Incubator

11. Results First Test Round

12. Resolution of the Problem: treated
water with no sign of E. coli

13. Evaluation- final phase of the cycle of
PAR
Their concerns were
located in the areas of:
Participation
Process
Environmental modifications
Results
We reconstructed for the
first time in explicit terms
the steps and the logic of
Participatory Action
Research, using a backchaining teaching strategy.