Roots, shoots, but too little fruit: assessing the contribution of COPC in South Africa.

Autor: Tollman SM; School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. tollmansm@sph.wits.ac.za, Pick WM
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: American journal of public health [Am J Public Health] 2002 Nov; Vol. 92 (11), pp. 1725-8.
DOI: 10.2105/ajph.92.11.1725
Abstrakt: Community-oriented primary care (COPC) originated in South Africa during the 1940s and 1950s, where it served to inform local church-based and nongovernmental organization-based initiatives during the apartheid years. During the 1990s, COPC played an inspirational role in the process of national health policy formulation. Yet COPC's contribution to current health practice remains more symbolic than substantive. Despite a policy framework that favors the widespread introduction of COPC, various political, structural, managerial, and human resource obstacles constrain its effective implementation. Notwithstanding a rapidly changing health care environment and well-established health transition from infections and nutritional disorders to non-communicable diseases and injury, COPC and its variants remain abidingly relevant to South Africa's-and Africa's-health care reality.
Databáze: MEDLINE
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