Primary Health Care
Primary Health Care
Primary Health Care
The ultimate goal of primary health care is better health for all. WHO has identified five key elements to achieving that goal:
reducing exclusion and social disparities in health (universal coverage reforms); organizing health services around people's needs and expectations (service delivery reforms); integrating health into all sectors (public policy reforms); pursuing collaborative models of policy dialogue (leadership reforms); and increasing stakeholder participation.
Strategies
1. Reorientation
2. Effective preparation and enabling process for health action levels. 3. Mobilization of the people to know their communities and identifying their basic health needs. 4. Development of the utilization of appropriate technology focusing on local indigenous resources available in and acceptable to the community. 5. Organization of communities arising from the expresses needs.
6.increase opportunities for community participation in local level planning, management, monitoring and evaluation within the context of regional and national objects. 7. Development of intra-sectoral linkages with other government and private agencies. 8. Emphasizing partnership so that the health workers ang the community leaders/members view each other as partners rather than merely providers and reciever of health care respectively
Levels of CARE