Table 5 Primary health care

Primary medical care

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

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

(a) Medical Care Services

The right not to be subjected to torture or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment (art.

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

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

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

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 primary health care is the main element in the national health care system.

These health care services include

C. Access to 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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Australia has a mixed system of public and private health care financing and health care delivery.

Addressing inadequacies in primary secondary health care facilities.

Primary health care in Latvia is based on the concept of family doctors.

This indicates that the primary health care system has become more stable.

Payment for health care services has started based on new health care contracts.

Health care services in Brčko District are organized in the same way as in both Entities, and its government finances health care services.

Female healthcare and family planning services

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

Primary health care doctors are still retraining to become family doctors.

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).

The project will lead to comprehensive policy recommendations on developing a continuum of care within the primary health care sector aiming towards integrated old age care.

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.

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

Important alliances were formed with the World Bank and WHO to strengthen Primary Health Care (PHC) centres, train staff and develop quality standards as part of PHC reform.

Article 12 Equality of Access to Health Care Services

In Republika Srpska, health care services are organized through its health care fund, the primary, secondary and tertiary health care services.

In order to improve the availability of health care services to Latvia's residents, simultaneously the work is also being done on improving the secondary health care system.

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

This percentage tends to diminish where specialized health care services exist, which are dedicated to diagnosis and treatment of the said women at the primary level.

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

Some hospitals and health care systems also provide telephone interpreting services.

Article 12 Women's equal access to health care services

Establishment of an effective structure of health care service providers