Journal article
Primary health care in the Philippines: Banking on the barangays?
Abstract
Primary health care has been hailed by some countries as the only practical means of providing any form of health care for expanding populations in poor economies. This is particularly true in Third World countries where the cost explosion of technology-oriented health care has been a major problem in extending services. Therefore, the PHC package of education, nutrition, preventive medicine and treatment of the most common diseases and …
Authors
Phillips DR
Journal
Social Science & Medicine, Vol. 23, No. 10, pp. 1105–1117
Publisher
Elsevier
Publication Date
January 1986
DOI
10.1016/0277-9536(86)90269-8
ISSN
0277-9536