Primary Health Care Aim- to suggest strategies for improving health care and control of disease in LEDC(s).

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Primary Health CareAim- to suggest strategies
for improving health care and control of disease
in LEDC(s).

• Throughout the developing world, governments are
  unable to afford the elaborate health care
  systems found in the west. In an effort to
  improve the health the health of their citizens
  they have adopted a number of strategies
  classified as primary health care.

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PHC-Strategy for improving Water and Sanitation
Low cost ventilated toilet
This ventilated toilet is cheap to build, does
not use precious water and prevents flies from
spreading disease. In addition sewage will not
leak into drinking water supplies.
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Example of a primary healthcare model
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Primary Health care tasksResource pp22-24 of
DH textbook

• What is the role of primary Healthcare?
• For a range of countries give examples of how PHC
  programmes are implemented?
• What are the advantages and disadvantages of
  these PHC programmes? (give named examples)

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Primary Health Care Challenge

• You have to produce an A3 poster, which is
  colourful and informative and easy to understand.
• Your poster must include the following
• Information on what are the 8 strands of PHC,
  with a short description of each.
• For at least 4 strands give an example of how
  that strand can be implemented.
• Resources
• PHC information sheet
• Surviving childhood information sheet
• Keeping our water clean information sheet