Primary care and international health links: should GPs get more involved?
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Cath volunteers with the PONT Mbale (www.PONT-mbale.org) link and chairs their primary care committeewhich is embedded in a community to community partnership between Rhondda Cynon Taf in SouthWales and a district in Uganda called Mbale. Since 2005,PONThave trained60operational level health workers (OHWs) across three nongovernmental organisations (NGOs), 450 community health workers (CHWs) across fiveNGOs, and distributed 10 000 insecticide treated bed nets. Cath is enthusiastic about the Department for International Development’s (now UKAID) £5million annual investment in the new International Health Partnerships Scheme, which was announced last year.1 This is a real opportunity to consider the history, impact and future direction of the International Health Linksmovement.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners
دوره 61 592 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2011