Shadow Puppets and Neglected Diseases: Evaluating a Health Promotion Performance in Rural Indonesia.

ABSTRACT: 'Rama and the Worm' is a shadow puppet production targeting neglected diseases in Central Java. It is an entertainment-based intervention study to promote health by reducing the impact of parasitic diseases such as soil-transmitted helminths (STH). The study uses traditional Javanese shadow puppetry (wayang kulit) as a vehicle in village communities to disseminate health messages and promote behaviour change to prevent diseases caused, primarily, by inadequate sanitation and poor hygiene. The health education messages contained in the play, although using traditional characters and themes, required the creation of a completely new narrative script, using characters and plot lines familiar to the wayang kulit repertoire, but placing them in new situations that relate specifica

SUBMITTER: Kurscheid J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6164465 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature