Iraqi system of primary health care: A communitarian system of family medicine under a dictatorship framework
Olivier Godichet
Comité d´Aide Médicale and European Commission, Humanitarian Office (ECHO), Ninehva Governate, Mosul, Iraq
Vivian Ghanem
Comité d´Aide Médicale and European Commission, Humanitarian Office (ECHO), Ninehva Governate, Mosul, Iraq
PP: 113 - 124
Abstract
Primary Health Care Centers (PHCC) in Iraq provide preventive and primary health care with and without doctors. They are 2 kinds of PHCC: main, or small and structurally different, according to their location in urban and rural areas. Across Iraq there are they are 1453-1570 PHCCs.
Corresponding to an increase in sanitary crises since end of the 1990s, about 10% of secondary health centers have been closed as a result of post war infrastructure beak down.
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