Public Health

Care as
Strategy
1. Reorientation and
reorganization of the
national health care system
with the establishment of
functional support
mechanism in support of
the mandate of devolution
under the Local
Government code of 1991.
2. Effective
preparation and
enabling process
for health action
at all levels.
3. Mobilization of the people
to know their communities
and identifying their basic
health needs with the end
in view of providing
appropriate solutions
(including legal measures)
leading to self-reliance and
self determination.
4. Development and
utilization of appropriate
technology focusing on
local indigenous
resources available in
and acceptable to the
community.
5. Organization of
communities arising from
their expressed needs which
they have decided to
address and that this is
continually evolving in
pursuit of their own
development.
6. Increase opportunities for
community participation in
local level planning,
management, monitoring
and evaluation within the
context of regional and
national objectives.
7. Development of intra-sectoral
linkages with other
government and private
agencies so that programs of
the health sector is closely
linked with those of other
socio-economic sectors at the
national, intermediate and
community levels.
8. Emphasizing partnership
so that the health workers
and the community
leaders/members view each
as partners rather than
merely providers and
receiver of health care
respectively.
 The framework for meeting the
goal of primary health care is
organizational strategy, which calls
for active and continuing
partnership among the
communities, private and
government agencies in health
development.