Prelim Stuff PHC Flashcards
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More benefits of PHC include
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- Training costs are low - for example it costs just 100 dollars for a years training
- Death rate reduced in villages as doctors visit those who cannot travel to the nearest hospital
- Mobile health van is taken to rural villages
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PHC strategies provide
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- Villages with local dispensaries which improves the health of the people by offering essential modern drugs and family planning
- Improvements to sanitation and clean drinking water provision which reduces cholera and malaria cases and improves general health allowing the working population to be able to provide for their families
3
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And finally…
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- Government can spend more money on development - crucial in developing countries - as barefoot workers provide info on vaccinations birth control and hygiene, reducing spread of disease, birth rate, infant mortality rate etc
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Barefoot workers improve health and development of a development of a developing country by…
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- Can move around the community offering basic treatment and try to maintain good health
- Saves local people from travel to the nearest hospital
- Hospitals can deal with more serious illness and not as much pressure
- Provide for those in remote areas where budgets are limited