Community-based, community-oriented maternity care.

Community-based maternity care in 2008.

Community Oriented Primary Care

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Community-oriented primary care.

Community-oriented primary care (COPC) combines elements of clinical medicine and public health to provide an effective strategy in tackling today's health problems. A primary care practice or program that develops a partnership with an identified community to describe and prioritize health concerns and design and monitor the impact of an intervention can make a difference to the health of a co...

Pioneering community-oriented primary care.

This is a retrospective report on the importance of Kark and Cassel's 1952 paper on community-oriented primary care (COPC). In 1978, WHO and UNICEF endorsed COPC. However, the ideas girding and framing this approach had first been given full expression in practice some four decades earlier. In Depression-Era South Africa, Sidney Kark, a leader of the National Department of Health, converted ...

community-based maternity care from the view of iranian midwives: a phenomenological study

abstract background: midwifery cares take place in diverse communities with different ethnics groups. therefore, midwifery cares could be planned wisely and principally based on women’s and their families’ changeable demands which focus on social and cultural issues. this qualitative study explored the midwives’ experiences of care in the community. materials and methods: this qualitative study...