ABSTRACT
This chapter provides an overview of the steps that preceded the actual application of the CPI model, a description of the research team skills as required by the model, and the sequence in conducting the research. It includes specific information on the CPI cholera project workshops and examples of the community-based activities, such as interviews and household observations. From October 1994 through October 1995 the CPI model was used to slow and then stop the spread of a cholera epidemic in the highlands of Ecuador. The medical ecology perspective was employed to focus on the unit of the household and its use of resources, particularly water. The national-level presentations to government officials and policy-makers, the CPI project included three multi-day regional team training workshops and fifteen community assemblies facilitated by the village-based Community Teams. The CPI cholera project, the Technical Team was made up of the national and international advisors from both the Ecuadorian Ministry of Health (MOH) and USAID.
