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Primary Health Care |
Essential health service that is appropriate, accessible, acceptable and affordable for individuals and family in the community. |
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Components of Primary Care |
1. Health education 2. Food & nutrition 3. Water and sanitation 4. Maternal and child health including family planning 5. Immunization 6. Control of locally endemic diseases 7. Treatment of common ailments 8. Essential drugs 9. Mental health 10. Dental health |
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Pillars of PHC |
Political will Intersectoral collaboration Community participation Appropriate technology |
PICA |
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Intersectoral nature of PHC |
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Ministries |
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Levels of health care |
Primary health care • promotive, preventive and basic curative services at health posts, health centres and satellite clinics Secondary health care • Hospital services (District hospital) and Health centres Tertiary health care • Regional or national level institutions. Eg, KBTH, KATH |
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Structure of Primary Health Care |
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Criticisms against health care services |
1. Urban oriented predominantly 2. Accessible mainly to a small part of the population 3. Curative in nature 4. Level A mainly depended on volunteer stuff, which is unsustainable |
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Principles of PHC |
Equity Intersectoral collaboration |
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