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ATTITUDE OF PEOPLE TOWARDS NONGOVERNMENT ORGANIZATIONS INTERVENTION WITH REFERENCE TO HEALTH AWARENESS A POST CRISIS ANALYSIS IN SWATPAKISTAN

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http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/gsr.2021(VI-I).12      10.31703/gsr.2021(VI-I).12      Published : Mar 2021

Attitude of People towards Non-Government Organizations Intervention with Reference to Health Awareness: A Post Crisis Analysis in Swat-Pakistan

Abstract

    This study conducted with the objective to measure the pre and post NGOs intervention regarding health awareness and people level of satisfaction. The sample size for this study was selected 230 from the total population of 450. The study concluded that NGOs intervention significantly lunching campaign against tobacco control, HIV/AIDS, immunization awareness, dengue virus awareness. In addition, there was an increase in health hygiene and nutrition education, training of traditional birth attendants and health worker trainings with new technologies. The government and NGOs extend their projects that are focusing on communicable diseases that ultimately lead to the control of various lives threatening disease. Preventive health efforts must be initiated by both public and private agencies at the community level. Health and hygiene-related material must be included in the textbooks of private and public school at all level.

    Non-Government Organizations, Heath Awareness, Crisis, Intervention, Pakistan

    (1) Shakeel Ahmad
    Lecturer, Department of Social Work and Sociology, Kohat University of Science and Technology, Kohat, KP, Pakistan.
    (2) Mansoor Ahmad
    Lecturer, Department of Social Work and Sociology, Kohat University of Science and Technology, Kohat, KP, Pakistan.
    (3) Asif Mehmood
    Lecturer, Department of Social Work and Sociology, Kohat University of Science and Technology, Kohat, KP, Pakistan.
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APA

    APA : Ahmad, S., Ahmad, M., & Mehmood, A. (2021). Attitude of People towards Non-Government Organizations Intervention with Reference to Health Awareness: A Post Crisis Analysis in Swat-Pakistan. Global Sociological Review, VI(I), 86-95. https://doi.org/10.31703/gsr.2021(VI-I).12

CHICAGO

    CHICAGO : Ahmad, Shakeel, Mansoor Ahmad, and Asif Mehmood. 2021. "Attitude of People towards Non-Government Organizations Intervention with Reference to Health Awareness: A Post Crisis Analysis in Swat-Pakistan." Global Sociological Review, VI (I): 86-95 doi: 10.31703/gsr.2021(VI-I).12

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    HARVARD : AHMAD, S., AHMAD, M. & MEHMOOD, A. 2021. Attitude of People towards Non-Government Organizations Intervention with Reference to Health Awareness: A Post Crisis Analysis in Swat-Pakistan. Global Sociological Review, VI, 86-95.

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    MHRA : Ahmad, Shakeel, Mansoor Ahmad, and Asif Mehmood. 2021. "Attitude of People towards Non-Government Organizations Intervention with Reference to Health Awareness: A Post Crisis Analysis in Swat-Pakistan." Global Sociological Review, VI: 86-95

MLA

    MLA : Ahmad, Shakeel, Mansoor Ahmad, and Asif Mehmood. "Attitude of People towards Non-Government Organizations Intervention with Reference to Health Awareness: A Post Crisis Analysis in Swat-Pakistan." Global Sociological Review, VI.I (2021): 86-95 Print.

OXFORD

    OXFORD : Ahmad, Shakeel, Ahmad, Mansoor, and Mehmood, Asif (2021), "Attitude of People towards Non-Government Organizations Intervention with Reference to Health Awareness: A Post Crisis Analysis in Swat-Pakistan", Global Sociological Review, VI (I), 86-95

TURABIAN

    TURABIAN : Ahmad, Shakeel, Mansoor Ahmad, and Asif Mehmood. "Attitude of People towards Non-Government Organizations Intervention with Reference to Health Awareness: A Post Crisis Analysis in Swat-Pakistan." Global Sociological Review VI, no. I (2021): 86-95. https://doi.org/10.31703/gsr.2021(VI-I).12