Emphasis on primary health care

Nutrition in Primary Health Care (PHC) The objective is to improve in qualitative terms the nutritional status of women, girls and infants by providing and expanding more PHC nutritional services.

The Action Plan for Saskatchewan Health Care, released in 2001, recognizes the importance of Primary Health Care.

Strengthening the Guinean Programme for Primary Health Care (PEV SSP ME) on the basis of the Bamako initiative.

Addressing inadequacies in primary secondary health care facilities.

Health care protection is provided in a uniform system of health care activities by the implementation of measures of primary, specialist and consulting and hospital health care protection.

Provincial supports included the establishment of the Office of Primary Health Care, the Primary Health Care Advisory Council, linkages with local college and university programs and professional associations, and the development of provincial working groups to support learning problem solving and capacity building for health care providers.

These have often been set up isolated from the primary health care structure and sexual and reproductive health care programmes in particular.

Cantons are competent for financing and the provision for primary forms of health care of persons with disabilities.

The Nova Scotia Diversity and Social Inclusion in Primary Health Care Initiative is a three year plan, started in 2003 and funded by Health Canada's Primary Health Care Transition Fund.

In the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, health care is organized through the health insurance fund, the primary, secondary and tertiary health care services.

Medical care for pregnant women and newborns is provided by primary medical and health care institutions, hospitals, and special medical and other health care institutions (article 61 of the law).

During the 1980s, less than 30 of the population had access to primary health care services.

External resources allocated to essential health services, meanwhile, amounted to 11.6 per cent.

Without more funds, the Agency would be unable to maintain the quality of even basic health care.

The health system in BiH is organized and provides services on three levels primary health care, consultative and specialist and hospital health care protection.

1.132 The new computerized health management information system and the drug supply management system will have been established at all primary health care facilities with links to Field Offices and Headquarters.

Major investments were made in the area of primary health care, prevention, as well as services for the elderly.

Women have access to social protection programmes through medical facilities of primary health care and in hospital services, centres and dispensaries.

All primary health care units dedicate more than 50 of their resources to preventive medicine.

Primary health care services had been improved, maternal and infant mortality had declined and the use of modern contraceptives had increased.

As part of the PHC component of nutrition, nutrition information, education and communication activities have been started.

The Government is providing funding to improve indigenous peoples' access to comprehensive primary health care services.

Different levels of health care are insufficiently connected and coordinated and health care protection is overrated, at the expense of primary protection.

Just imagine, 1,000 people could ensure primary health care for one billion impoverished people.

The Australian Government is providing funding to improve indigenous peoples' access to comprehensive primary health care services.

It is necessary to improve the health protection of the elderly population by providing primary health protection, home nursing through family medicine departments, rehabilitation and medical care for this population group.

As well, the Department, following an intensive public consultation, approved a provincial primary health care renewal framework, Moving Forward Together Mobilizing Primary Health Care.

The basis and the central part of the system of health care protection is primary health care protection (PZZ) through which the citizens enter the system of health care and fulfill all health care needs that do not require more complex health care services related to examination and treatment.

The Programme of Action calls upon all countries to provide primary health care to all and to make efforts to ensure a longer and healthier life for their populations.

1.113 To improve access of the disadvantaged and under served refugee population to health care by rehabilitation, upgrading and expansion of primary health care facilities, based on careful mapping of the services of other health care providers.

1.109 The Agency's second largest programme is health. The foundation of UNRWA health care is its network of 125 primary health care facilities. Programme activities are focused on comprehensive primary health care, comprising essential medical care services, child health care, expanded maternal health and family planning and control of communicable and non communicable diseases supported by assistance towards secondary care.

Sustained investment was critical in giving women better access to education, primary health care, reproductive health care, drinking water and sanitation, and the economic resources they needed to stand on their own feet.

This could lead to pulling away (human) resources from the primary health care structure including sexual and reproductive health , and will eventually lead to the erosion of the overall health care structure.

The UNICEF health programme continues to support Government efforts by contributing to the revitalization of primary health care units and promoting the capacity building of district health service institutions.

Primary care is available throughout the island and infant and maternal mortality rates compare favorably with those in developed nations.

The report states that the Government is providing funding to improve indigenous peoples' access to comprehensive primary health care services (para. 370).

To realize this right, the Programme of Action calls for an expansion of the provision of maternal health services in the context of primary health care.

More than 70,000 Lady Health Workers working at village level provided services for micronutrient supplementation and counseling on growth promotion, maternal and child nutrition, breast feeding and complementary feeding on a regular basis.

On 22 January 2001, the Secretary Board of the Party's Central Committee issued Directive 06 CT TW on strengthening the grassroots healthcare system with a view to improving the quality of primary healthcare for the people.

All three health MDGs are interconnected all are feasible with an appropriate scaling up of primary health services.

At that time, the Ministry of Health adopted a policy of Primary Health Care enshrined in the Alma Ata Declaration of the late 1970s.

A major goal of the international community is to provide access to primary health care services to all and to reduce the risks of contracting the major infectious diseases.

Although all strategic documents of health care reform predict the strengthening of the PZZ and the rationalization of consulting and specialist and hospital health care protection, data show that this form of health care protection in the observed period had greater growth index than primary health care protection.

A National Programme for Family Planning Primary Health Care has been launched and aims at delivering basic health services at the doorsteps of the underprivileged segments of the society through deployment of Lady Health Workers (LHWs) living in their own localities.