Primary medical care

Table 5 Primary health care

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.

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

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.

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.

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).

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.

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

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.

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 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.

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D. Primary health care and the health care sector

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

Priority areas in health care are the improvement of maternal and child health protection and the further enhancement of the material technical base of primary care facilities.

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

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.

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

Guidelines and protocols for reproductive health services were developed for hospitals and primary health centres.

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.

Health care

The occupied Syrian villages do not have hospitals and suffer from a chronic shortage of health centres and clinics, particularly affecting women and children.85 Syrian Arabs have to pay for all health services, including primary health care, which was free of charge prior to the occupation.85

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.

Furthermore, it was only shortly after the Alma Ata Conference had convened in 1978 that the Government took prompt action to implement its recommendations along with family planning programmes, maternal and child health programmes thus came to take priority in the concerns of primary health care programmes.

Primary health care is to remain a key area of concern and a framework within which to work owing to its comprehensive nature, its long term health impact and its economic viability

Emergencv Trypanosomiasis Units in M'Banza Congo Provincial Hospital AMDA collaborated with OCHA in another project carried out in Angola for the period of ten months from Jun.

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.

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.

In addition, a social welfare services scheme has been established that includes programmes on qualitative education, improving primary health care facilities and providing social services.

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.