Equity in integrated primary health care (EQUITY)

Project to restructure South Africa's public health care system so that it provides integrated primary health care (PHC) services equitably to all South Africans, especially those underserved under apartheid (EQUITY project). The project, a 7-year, $50 million effort, will be implemented by the national/provincial Department of Health (DOH) and a U.S. contractor, first in Eastern Cape Province, then nationwide. The project has five major outputs, as noted below. To increase access of the targeted population to a package of essential, integrated PHC services, the project will institutionalize within the DOH at the national and provincial levels a coordinated strategic planning/implementation process for major program outcomes and develop mechanisms for broad government and community participation and linkages between sectors and local communities. In addition, the project will conduct operations research on ways to improve access to PHC (e.g., by involving traditional healers in the process), and will build local capacity to deliver PHC services, principally via inservice training. Efforts will also be made to remove barriers to accessing facilities, e.g., through workshops to or

Source: DEC abstract, PD-ABQ-510 (1995). This is the source's own text, not a cited summary of the documents.