Prelim Stuff PHC

Question 1

More benefits of PHC include

Answer 1

5. Training costs are low - for example it costs just 100 dollars for a years training
6. Death rate reduced in villages as doctors visit those who cannot travel to the nearest hospital
7. Mobile health van is taken to rural villages

Question 2

PHC strategies provide

Answer 2

8. Villages with local dispensaries which improves the health of the people by offering essential modern drugs and family planning
9. 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

Question 3

And finally…

Answer 3

10. 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

Question 4

Barefoot workers improve health and development of a development of a developing country by…

Answer 4

1. Can move around the community offering basic treatment and try to maintain good health
2. Saves local people from travel to the nearest hospital
3. Hospitals can deal with more serious illness and not as much pressure
4. Provide for those in remote areas where budgets are limited