What is primary health care
Introduction
Primary health care is essential health care made universally accessible to individuals and acceptable to them, through their full participation and at a cost the community and country can afford.
Elements of primary health care:
1. Education concerning prevailing health problems and the methods of preventing and controlling them;
2. Promotion of food supply and proper nutrition;
3. An adequate supply of safe water and basic sanitation;
4. Maternal and child health care, including family planning;
5. Immunization against major infectious diseases;
6. Prevention and control of locally endemic diseases;
7. Appropriate treatment of common diseases and injuries; and
8. Provision of essential drugs.
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