title: The child: a pragmatic instrument in primary health care.
abstract: Children can be regarded as an integral community group--rather than as passive recipients of health care services--and can be a valuable asset in primary health care programmes, as demonstrated in the following report based on years of field experience by the first author Ego Onyejiaku and a recent project in Eastern Nigeria among the Igbo people. The cultural attitudes of parents in Igbo society made the success of PHC through these children more likely.
authors.affiliation: University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital, Enugu, Anambra State.
authors.forename: E E
authors.initials: EE
authors.lastname: Onyejiaku
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Rogers
mesh_terms: D001294:Attitude to Health; D002648:Child; D003466:Cultural Characteristics; D006266:Health Education; D006801:Humans; D009549:Nigeria; D010358:Patient Participation; D011320:Primary Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D002666:Psychology, Child