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Primary health care
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Implementation of PHC in the nursing practice:

Traditional nursing Community oriented nursing

Focus Sick individual Community health

Target Sick and disabled Total population especially
underserved and high risk
groups

Population and setting Hospital, institutions Communities, homes, schools,
industries, hospitals……

Objectives of nursing
practices

Preventive Focus on secondary, Focus on primary
tertiary prevention prevention

Therapeutic Patient well enough to Improved patient, family
be discharged and community health, self
care and self reliance.

Nursing role -Specialized Interdependent within the
health sectors and other
-Interdependent with
health sector sectors.

Nursing concern Condition requiring Prevailing health problems
hospitalization and community needs

Barriers affecting proper implementation of PHC:

 Poor socio economic conditions.

 Inappropriate education.

 High level of fertility.

 Poor environmental conditions.

 Poor communication and transportation facilities.

 Lack of human and material resources.

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