Primary health care in the tropics.
Primary health care (PHC) organization as part of the country's health care system or of a community development system is compared and causes of failure of PHC programmes analyzed. PHC approach has too often forgotten the need for a well-designed suprastructure and/or that the perception in the communities of diseases and health care is strongly dependent on several attitude towards Western medicine. To avoid these blinkers, a good collaboration between health professionals, social scientists and indigenous people is very important during the planning process of PHC programmes.
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Swiss Tropical Insitute Basle, Switzerland.
D003153:Community Health Services; D006801:Humans; D011320:Primary Health Care; D014330:Tropical Medicine