Primary Health Care

Question 1

Strategies - Oral Rehydration Therapy (ORT)

Answer 1

• An easy, cheap and effective method of treating dehydration through diarrhoea - allowing even the poorest developing country to tackle this health problem
• The World Health Organization estimates that ORT saves about 1 million babies each year in developing countries

Question 2

Strategies - Organised Health Education Programmes

Answer 2

• Educate people about how to prevent diseases spreading for example by the use of mosquito nets to prevent malaria

Question 3

Strategies - Use of barefoot doctors

Answer 3

• Individuals were chosen by each village to be trained to a basic level of health care and so were fully trusted by the community
• In countries with large rural areas it is very difficult to ensure that every village has access to fully trained doctors/hospital

Question 4

Strategies - Small-scale health projects eg pit latrines

Answer 4

• Use local labor and building materials for these projects reduces the cost and are readily available
• They also provide the locals with training and transferable skills, which can help them to improve their standard of living in other ways
• Using local facilitators also ensures that the projects gain faster acceptance and usage in the local and wider community