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What are the essential components of primary health care?

August 10, 2024

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Primary health care includes the following essential components:(𝐢) Providing education concerning prevailing health problems and methods of preventing and controlling them.

(𝐢𝐢) Provision of food supply and proper nutrition.

(𝐢𝐢𝐢) Adequate supply of safe and clean drinking water and basic sanitation.

(𝐢𝐯) Provision of maternal and child health care.

(𝐯) Immunisation against major infectious diseases.

(𝐯𝐢) Prevention and control of local epidemic diseases.

(𝐯𝐢𝐢) Appropriate treatment of common diseases and injuries.

(𝐯𝐢𝐢𝐢) Provision of essential drugs,

(𝐢𝐱) Promoting health education in schools and colleges.

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