title: Primary health care for a civilian population: the experience of the Israel Defense Forces in southern Lebanon.
abstract: Since May 1976, the Medical Corps of the Israel Defense Forces has provided primary medical care for a population of more than 100,000 in southern Lebanon. The project of the "Good Fence" clinics is discussed in relation to primary health care problems encountered in rural southern Lebanon during the period of the Lebanese civil war and the Litani Operation.
mesh_terms: D006779:Hospitals, Public; D006801:Humans; D007861:Lebanon; D008887:Military Medicine; D011320:Primary Health Care; D014857:Warfare