Evolving a Rural Community – Based, Participatory Health Care Model Based on Indian Indigenous System of Medicine
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Based on the principles of primary health care as outlined by WHO / UNICEF at the Alma Ata conference, in the Soviet Union in 1978, many developing countries including India, have been formulating organizing and experimenting with primary health care (PHC) programmes both in the public and private voluntary sectors. So far in India, the Government’s centralized health care services using modern medicine and PHC approaches have been faced with many administrative and bureaucratic weaknesses in implementation and have been unable to meet the health needs of the rural populations, in terms of accessibility, affordability availability, acceptability and effective utilization. Some of the shortcomings are discussed.
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Development of a Rural Community Health Care Model Based on Indian Indigenous System of Medicine
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