Reflections on Primary Health Care and Family Medicine in Botswana
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Copyright: © 2014. The Authors. Licensee: AOSIS OpenJournals. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License. Primary Care should be the ‘central function and main focus of a country’s health system‘.1 The Ouagadougu Declaration similarly states that the vehicle for achieving the Millennium Development Goals and addressing the health of African nations is Primary Health Care (PHC).2
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دوره 6 شماره
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تاریخ انتشار 2014