Well men clinic service in the primary health care setting

Well men clinic service in the primary health care setting.

Improving eye care in the primary health care setting.

One of the challenges facing primary health care in South Africa is the delivery of quality eye care to all South Africans. In this regard the role of the primary health care worker, as the first point of contact, is crucial. This paper reports on the problems primary health care workers experience in providing quality eye care in Region B of the Free State. Problems identified by those involve...

Applying the diabetes quality improvement project indicators in the Indian Health Service primary care setting.

OBJECTIVE With publication of the Diabetes Quality Improvement Project (DQIP) measures, the Indian Health Service National Diabetes Program applied the DQIP format to its IHS Diabetes Care and Outcomes Audit for comparison and benchmarks. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS Since 1986 the IHS Diabetes Care and Outcomes Audit has been conducted by medical record review in >75% of IHS and tribal facili...

Health Promotion in a Primary Health Care Setting

Primary care practitioners are ideally situated to carry out health promotion activities. Neural tube defects are of a fairly low incidence, but the consequences are tragic. They range from life long physical and often intellectual disabilities, to death at birth. Increased folate intake, either through eating folate rich foods or through supplementation, has been shown to reduce the incidence ...

Experience of men in the context of Primary Health Care.

OBJECTIVES To know the experience of male users' in the primary health care and to build data based theory that represents this experience. METHODOLOGY This is a qualitative study, in which was used the reference of Grounded Theory and Symbolic Interactionism, respectively, methodological and theoretical. We interviewed 33 male users of three units of primary health care. RESULTS After comp...