LADY HEALTH WORKERS PROGRAM IN PAKISTAN

Gomal Journal of Medical Sciences

Iftikhar Ahmad¹ 

[1] PhD, Chairman, Department of Community Medicine, Gomal Medical College, D.I.Khan;

关键词: lady health worker;    health care system;    primary health care;    house calls;    management information systems;    family planning services;    comprehensive health care;    pakistan.;   

DOI  :  10.46903/gjms/17.04.2094

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Being signatory to Alma Ata declaration, the Government of Pakistan started the ‘National Program for Family Planning and Primary Health Care’ (NPFP & PHC), also called ‘Lady Health Workers (LHWs) program’ in 1994. Being one of the largest and successful, community-based program in the world, it is providing door-step PHC services to about one billion people, especially home-bound, rural, poor women, children and elderly. The program has been improving many health indicators including infant and maternal mortality rates in the last two & a half decades.1

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