Primary health care: perspective of village women from Himachal Pradesh.

a Department of Community Medicine, Indira Gandhi Medical College, Shimla 171001, India. Correspondence to Salig R Mazta (email: [email protected]) ‘Health for All’ through the primary health care approach was initiated in 1978. All the eight elements of primary health care are delivered at the grass root level through sub-health centres by health workers (male and female) in co-ordination with many other departments in India. Women and children below five years are a priority group. It is very important to understand their perspective to improve primary health care.