Rural development and primary health care in less developed countries
Muhondwa, E.P.
Social Science and Medicine 22(11): 1247-1256
1986
ISSN/ISBN: 0277-9536 PMID: 3529420 DOI: 10.1016/0277-9536(86)90191-7Document Number: 344757
The traditional approach has been to regard health activities as a small component of rural development programmes. Under the primary health care (PHC) system, health is seen as the lever for rural development. However, in the implementation of PHC in developing countires there is a trend towards limiting it to preventive and curative personal health services and removing its community development orientation. The paper highlights some of the issues that seem to militate against the establishment of PHC with its full complement of rural development activities.
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