Field guide for the study of health-seeking behaviour at the household level

Abstract:

Since the WHO-sponsored Alma-Ata Conference on Primary Health Care of 1978, there has been general agreement that efforts to improve the nutritional status of developing country populations should be an integral part of programmes of primary health care (PHC). Moreover, most PHC activities, including immunization, environmental hygiene and personal sanitation, maternal and child health, and health education are essential contributors to improved nutrition. However, the effectiveness of programmes of primary health care are known to vary widely, and little is known of the extent to which nutritional considerations are really introduced and if so what effect they are having. In 1983 the United Nations University and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) developed a programme to involve anthropologists and others using anthropological methodologies in examining the extent to which the nutritional …

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1984

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