title: Primary health care: from classroom to reality.
abstract: This paper addresses a model for teaching the theory and practice of primary health care to nursing students at a South African university. The legal background for the inclusion of primary health care in undergraduate programmes is explained, as is the practical solution for clinical placements in a rural setting. An explanation is also provided for the development of clinical resources within the clinical field, and the paper concludes with a summary of the students' experience, thus showing how positive attitudes towards primary health care were fostered.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Health Care, University of Malta, Gwardamangia, Malta.
authors.forename: J J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Keogh
mesh_terms: D004508:Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D015402:Nursing Education Research; D011321:Primary Nursing; D019035:Rural Health Services; D013019:South Africa