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A primary health centre Endla, Rajasthan. Primary Health Centre (PHC s), sometimes referred to as public health centres, [1][2] are state-owned rural and urban health care facilities in India. [3][4] They are essentially single-physician clinics usually with facilities for minor surgeries. They are part of the government-funded public health ...
Indian healthcare system has been historically dominated by provisioning of medical care and neglected public health. [2] 11.9% of all maternal deaths and 18% of all infant mortality in the world occurs in India, ranking it the highest in the world in 2021. [3][4] 36.6 out of 1000 children are dead by the time they reach the age of 5.
Primary health centre. The primary health center or primary healthcare center ( PHC) is the basic structural and functional unit of the public health services in developing countries. PHCs were established to provide accessible, affordable and available primary health care to people, in accordance with the Alma Ata Declaration of 1978 by the ...
The committee was instrumental in bringing about the public health reforms related to peripheral health centres in India. Primary Health Centres were built across the nation to provide integrated promotive, preventive, curative and rehabilitative services to entire urban as well as rural population, as an integral component of wider community ...
Mohalla Clinics. Aam Aadmi Mohalla Clinics (AAMC), more popularly known as Mohalla Clinics, are primary health centres in the union territory of Delhi and the state of Punjab, India. They offer health services, including medicines, diagnostics, and consultations, for free. [1] The word mohalla in Hindi means "neighborhood" or "community".
Healthcare in West Bengal features a universal health care system run by the state and the federal governments. The Constitution of India charges every state with "raising of the level of nutrition and the standard of living of its people and the improvement of public health as among its primary duties". Ministry of Health & Family Welfare of ...
Primary health care. Primary health care (PHC) is a whole-of-society approach to effectively organise and strengthen national health systems to bring services for health and wellbeing closer to communities. [1] Primary health care enables health systems to support a person’s health needs – from health promotion to disease prevention ...
Hospitals, clinics, emergency departments, long-term care. Family medicine[note 1] is a medical specialty within primary care that provides continuing and comprehensive health care for the individual and family across all ages, genders, diseases, and parts of the body. [2][3] The specialist, who is usually a primary care physician, is named a ...