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I present a historical study of the role played by the World Health Organization and UNICEF in the emergence and diffusion of the concept of primary health care during the late 1970s and early 1980s. I have analyzed these organizations' political context, their leaders, the methodologies and technologies associated with the primary health care perspective, and the debates on the meaning of primary health care.

Analyzing the dimensions of the struggle for effective health care in the developing countries, this study demonstrates how current governmental and donor agency policies in such countries as Uganda, Ghana, Nepal, Pakistan and Vietnam have failed to develop efficient systems. The author argues against the current emphasis on decentralization and privatization, and outlines a framework for a long-term approach that should bring benefits and improvements in health care

AbstrakEksistensi hak kesehatan sebagai fundamental right yang dimiliki oleh setiap individu telah diakui secara kontitusional. Hakikatnya, kesehatan harus dijamin dengan adanya suatu kepastian hukum melalui upaya peningkatan kualitas kesehatan. Namun, beberapa daerah masih memiliki keterbatasan akses pelayanan kesehatan dasar di puskesmas. Hambatan tersebut terlihat dari minimnya jumlah puskesmas dan kesenjangan fasilitas antardaerah, kurangnya berbagai faktor penunjang, serta terbatasnya kuantitas tenaga kesehatan yang akan mempengaruhi capaian kesehatan masyarakat. Pemberlakuan jam operasional dalam rangka mengurangi angka penyebaran covid-19 mengakibatkan terjadinya dua kondisi yang kontras. Kondisi pertama menimbulkan overcapacityyang berisiko memicu kerumunan, sedangkan kondisi kedua menyebabkan penurunan jumlah kunjungan masyarakat ke puskesmas. Hal ini perlu menjadi fokus pemerintah, guna meningkatkan pemerataan pelayanan kesehatan pada daerah terdampak. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode penelitian hukum normatif dengan pendekatan peraturan perundang-undangan dan studi kepustakaan. Hasil penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa perlu strategi oleh pemerintah dalam mengatasi dinamika kesehatan sebagai suatu penyempurnaan kerangka kebijakan dalam mewujudkan target Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) pada sektor pelayanan kesehatan di daerah. Untuk itu, penulis beranggapan perlu adanya kepastian jaminan melalui Primary Health Care Improvement sebagai solusi alternatif yang tepat, guna meningkatkan kualitas pelayanan puskesmas di daerah terdampak dalam memitigasi covid-19. Abstract The existence of the right to health as a fundamental right that every individual owns has been recognized constitutionally. In essence, health must be guaranteed by the presence of a legal certainty through efforts to improve the quality of health. However, some areas still have limited access to essential health services at community health centres. These obstacles can be seen from the minimal number of community health centres and the gap in facilities between regions, the lack of various supporting factors, and the limited quantity of health workers that will affect public health outcomes. The implementation of operating hours to reduce the spread of COVID-19 resulted in two contrasting conditions. The first condition causes overcapacity, which risks crowds, while the second condition causes a decrease in the number of community visits to the community health centres. These conditions need to be the government's focus to increase the distribution of health services in affected areas. This study uses a normative legal research method with an approach to legislation and literature study. The results of this study indicate that the government needs a strategy in overcoming the dynamics of health as a refinement of the policy framework in realizing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) targets in the regional health service sector. For this reason, the authors think that there is a need for guarantees through Primary Health Care Improvement as an appropriate alternative solution to improve the quality of community health centres services in affected areas in mitigating COVID-19.

Safeguarding children from harm has, until recently, been driven primarily by social work practitioners. With current shifts in child care and protection practice and policy, combined with an overwhelming message of 'working together', primary health care professionals have an increasingly central part to play. There is a strong argument that cases of suspected child abuse and neglect should warrant the same level of urgent response as any potentially fatal childhood illness. This book provides an overview of the challenges primary health care professionals now face in recognising and respondi

Introduction: To fulfil its role of coordinating health care, primary health care needs to be well integrated, internally and with other health and related services. In Australia, primary health care services are divided between public and private sectors, are responsible to different levels of government and work under a variety of funding arrangements, with no overarching policy to provide a common frame of reference for their activities. Description of policy: Over the past decade, coordination of service provision has been improved by changes to the funding of private medical and allied health services for chronic conditions, by the development in some states of voluntary networks of services and by local initiatives, although these have had little impact on coordination of planning. Integrated primary health care centres are being established nationally and in some states, but these are too recent for their impact to be assessed. Reforms being considered by the federal government include bringing primary health care under one level of government with a national primary health care policy, establishing regional organisations to coordinate health planning, trialling voluntary registration of patients with general practices and reforming funding systems. If adopted, these could greatly improve integration within primary health care. Discussion: Careful change management and realistic expectations will be needed. Also other challenges remain, in particular the need for developing a more population and community oriented primary health care.

This briefing is based on unpublished research conducted while the author was Chief of the Medical Anthropology Seminar, Centre International de Semiologie, National University of Zaire, 1975–78, and during subsequent brief visits. The term 'biomedicine' refers to diagnosis and treatment based on scientific biological research. As practised in Zaire, however, western‐style medicine may involve very little scientific method, and equipment and training bear little resemblance to modern standards of biomedicine. 'Folk practitioners' are herbalists, diviners and religious healers, empirical midwives and others. Traditional medicine, a term with ideological overtones, is avoided.

Over a two year period an inner city primary health care team constructed a manifesto which defined the common aims and objectives of the team. The statement was not comprehensive, but it served a variety of purposes. Audit was made explicit and a framework was provided for the team's annual report. The manifesto has proved useful for trainees and other new members of staff. It has given the team a sense of direction, and it is hoped that it will foster teamwork through team members feeling that they have 'ownership' of the plan. The manifesto was conceived in advance of the government's white paper and new contract for general practitioners. It addresses the perceived health needs of the practice population in a practical way. Other primary health care teams may wish to adapt or use the framework of the manifesto to produce their own version.

The following paper sets out to examine three issues: primary health care, chiropractic care, and the challenges to both in the next decade. The current crisis of primary health within the health care system provides chiropractic with an opportunity to choose between functioning as primary care or primary contact care. Chiropractic has seldom met its potential, or its own rhetoric, with regard to holistic health care which would make the case for being primary health care much stronger. There have been numerous social and political factors that have influenced this but part of the problem is that chiropractic has failed to clearly articulate itself as primary health care, and in some instances, has denied that it was. New opportunities and challenges will force chiropractors to resolve the issue of whether chiropractic is a general model of health care, or a form of health specialty (the neuromusculoskeletal practitioner verses the primary health practitioner).