i.e., the facility-level healthcare statistics data (2016–2019), the statistical yearbooks, WorldPop, and Chinese GDP’s spatial distribution data. We evaluate villages’ PHC service capacity using the number of doctors and essential equipment per capita, which...
This questionnaire-based survey was administered by family doctors and nurses from the selected practices, followed by medical examination and laboratory test. Medical personnel were trained by the research team before the study, and a small pilot study was carried out to validate the procedures. Th...
The inception of ASHA program was from similar indigenous and globally accepted health programmes (primarily in poor-resource settings) which included Community Health Workers (CHW) for leveraging the healthcare services to the unreached population [2,3,4] such as Barefoot doctors from China and ...
The paper draws, among others, the following conclusions: • The customers and community members of the villages perceived the facilities and services of PHCs to be deficient in many respects. • Neither doctors and PHC staff nor the district officials are able to refute adequately the issues...
18. Do you on refer clients to fellow GP/ doctors for special interest care in any of the following? Skin Cancer Varicose Veins Allergies Genetics Minor Surgery Sexual Health Cosmetic Medicine Question Title 19. I have used the Primary Health & Wellbeing Directory to find/refer clien...
The “barefoot doctors” played a critical role to support the primary health-care campaign in the rural part of China. Barefoot doctors are health-care providers who undergo basic medical training and worked in rural villages in China. They included farmers, folk healers, rural health-care ...
This PHC network is called the “district health systems”. It provides a comprehensive range of services including health promotion, disease surveillance, home healthcare, out-patient services with supervision and support by medical doctors from district hospitals. Three decades of PHC infrastructure ...
International Journal for Equity in Health (2024) 23:97 https://doi.org/10.1186/s12939-024-02183-7 International Journal for Equity in Health RESEARCH Open Access Uneven primary healthcare supply of rural doctors and medical equipment in remote China: community impact and the ...
There is little information on the types of providers practicing in rural India, their qualifications or experience, or the differences in their distribution across villages and states. There is limited evidence on what doctors know and how they practice, and the little evidence that we have ...
Caretakers expressed their concerns on the way nurses and sometimes doctors treated them. Below are some of the behaviours that were of concern: Unnecessary delays Unnecessary delays particularly among the nurses came as one of the main complaints. Caretakers reported leav- ing their homes early so...