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| Id | 79 | |
| Author | Frishkopf, M.; Hamze, H.; Alhassan, M.; Zukpeni, I., A.; Abu, S.; Zakus, D. | |
| Title | Performing arts as a social technology for community health promotion in northern Ghana. | |
| Reference | Frishkopf, M., Hamze, H., Alhassan, M., Zukpeni, I. A., Abu, S., & Zakus, D. (2016). Performing arts as a social technology for community health promotion in northern Ghana. Family Medicine and Community Health, 4(1), 22-36. |
Link to article | https://doi.org/10.15212/FMCH.2016.0105 |
| Abstract | We present first-phase results of a performing arts public health intervention, ‘Singing and Dancing for Health,’ aiming to promote healthier behaviors in Ghana’s impoverished Northern Region. We hypothesize that live music and dance drama provide a powerful technology to overcome barriers such as illiteracy, lack of adequate media access, inadequate health resources, and entrenched sociocultural attitudes. Our research objective is to evaluate this claim |
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| Thank you for this positive move in our community. . | Such groups can achieve several congruent goals: they gather multiple generations and revive traditional performance types, thus strengthening the social fabric; they serve as effective community mobilization devices; and they have the potential to incorporate health-oriented dance dramas, and their component songs and dances, into the local oral tradition, to be passed down through the generations. . | Through such active community involvement, we not only grew our audience but also blurred the lines between performers and the audience, encouraging the village community to assume some ownership of the event. . | Singing and Dancing for Health is an ongoing, arts-based public health initiative, centered on the creation, evaluation, and refinement of artistic performance - dance dramas, combining music, dance, costume, poetry, narrative, melodrama, and comedy - as a highly economical public health technology: an intervention supporting health promotion in Dagbani-speaking rural areas of Ghanas Northern Region. . |
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