Primary Health Care

First day of lectures!!! We have been looking at what Primary Health Care is and the 8 keys of Primary Health Care. Now I can tell you more about it!!! :)
It is essential and simple health care, accessible to the local community through their participation and at a cost that they can maintain at all times. It is the first level of contact for the individuals with the national health system and based closest possible to where they live. Therefore it is simple but of great impact.
To insure this you have to look at

• food and nutrition (adequate, affordable and balanced diet),
• water and sanitation (clean water, improving hygene),
• disease control (preventing and controlling major diseases through immunisation or teaching),
• mother and child health (pre- and postnatal care, training birth attendants),
• curative care (trainng health workers to recognise and treat diseases),
• essential drugs (obtaining most effective drugs at cheapest costs),
• health education (empowering local people),
• community resources (assisting local community).

Did you know that 80% of the world's diseases are caused by unsafe water or sanitation? Or that 5 million of young children's deaths per year could be prevented? Or still that one third of children in developing countries are seriously malnourished? I meen anyone can do something about that and yet do you know where 99% of the money in Christian countries go? yeah that's it: to itself.