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

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

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.

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

(a) Medical 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 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 health care services include

C. Access to health care

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Addressing inadequacies in primary secondary health care facilities.

Female healthcare and family planning services

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).

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

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

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.

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

Both Medicross and Prime Cure are active in the area of managed health care services, which include the full spectrum of primary health care services, for example day to day GP services, dentistry, optometry, radiology and pathology.

Article 12 Equality of Access to Health Care Services

Traditional harmful practices hinder equitable access of women and girls to comprehensive and affordable quality primary health care services, in particular reproductive health services.

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

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

Article 12 Women's equal access to health care services

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.

Only one in three mothers had access to child health care services.

Also, the share of health care services in private institutions is borne directly by patients.

South Africa Merger in the health care services market prohibited

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.

By law, there is freedom to receive health care services from whatever source.

Both have medical centres throughout the country and have extended networks of health care service practitioners through which they provide their managed care products and services to members of medical schemes.