title: Primary health care in Melanesia: problems and potentials.
abstract: Locally directed, decentralized health services offer opportunities for empowerment by defining priorities based on community-derived policies. These are the components of the Primary Health Care Approach still missing in Melanesia.
authors.affiliation: Dartmouth Medical School Department of Community and Family Medicine, Fairfield, Maine, USA.
authors.forename: W A
authors.initials: WA
authors.lastname: Alto
mesh_terms: D003150:Community Health Workers; D006801:Humans; D008542:Melanesia; D011320:Primary Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D016730:Program Development