a Society for Community Health Awareness, Research and Action (SOCHARA), Bangalore, Karnataka, India. Correspondence to Ravi Narayan (email: [email protected]) The WHO South-East Asia Region was one of the crucibles for development of the primary health care (PHC) concept. The Bandung Conference on Rural Hygiene held in 1937 drew global attention, through the League of Nations Health Organizatio...

Submit Manuscript | http://medcraveonline.com Abbreviations: PC: Palliative Care; PHC: Primary Health Care; NCD: Chronic Non-Communicable Disease; KPS: Karnofsky Performance Scale; WHO: World Health Organization; COPD: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease; AIDS: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome; REC: Research Ethics Committee; HU: Health Unit; NHP: National Humanization Policy; CHA: Communi...

Submit Manuscript | http://medcraveonline.com Abbreviations: PC: Palliative Care; PHC: Primary Health Care; NCD: Chronic Non-Communicable Disease; KPS: Karnofsky Performance Scale; WHO: World Health Organization; COPD: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease; AIDS: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome; REC: Research Ethics Committee; HU: Health Unit; NHP: National Humanization Policy; CHA: Communi...

Submit Manuscript | http://medcraveonline.com Abbreviations: PC: Palliative Care; PHC: Primary Health Care; NCD: Chronic Non-Communicable Disease; KPS: Karnofsky Performance Scale; WHO: World Health Organization; COPD: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease; AIDS: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome; REC: Research Ethics Committee; HU: Health Unit; NHP: National Humanization Policy; CHA: Communi...

BACKGROUND Quality improvement is attracting the attention of the primary health care system as a means by which to achieve higher quality patient care. Ontario, Canada has demonstrated leadership in terms of its improvement in healthcare, but the province lacks a structured framework by which it can consistently evaluate its quality improvement initiatives specific to the primary healthcare sy...

OBJECTIVES Health care systems throughout the world are in the process of restructuring and reforming their health service delivery systems, reorienting themselves to a primary health care (PHC) model that uses multidisciplinary practice (MDP) teams to provide a range of coordinated, integrated services. This study explores the challenges of putting the MDP approach into practice in one communi...

objectives: this study was conducted on the estimation of the efficiency of mental health program in primary health care in chaharmahal and bakhtyari province, situated in center of the islamic republic of iran, from 1999 to 2009. methods: one of the important objectives of mental health program is screening of mental health disorders and follow up. according to the prescription of mental healt...

Gender equity concerns in health care often centre on ensuring access to high-quality health care services for women. Although women consistently show higher rates of health care utilization and longer life expectancies, they tend to have higher reported morbidity rates, and the quality of care for services such as maternity and child health services can be poor. Primary health care (PHC) progr...

BACKGROUND Primary healthcare (PHC) is essential for equitable access and cost-effective healthcare. This makes PHC a key factor in the global strategy for universal health coverage (UHC). Implementing PHC requires an understanding of the health system under prevailing circumstances, but for most countries, no data are available. OBJECTIVES This paper describes and analyses the health systems...

Health workforce includes clinically trained health professionals, health management and support workers. Imbalance in health workforce is a major challenge, as its size and quality positively determine country’s ability to meet its goals of organizing and delivering health services, like immunization coverage, outreach of primary care etc. Unfortunately, India has uneven, inequitable and mal-d...