The secondary importance of primary health care in South Cameroon
- 1 December 1982
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry
- Vol. 6 (4) , 365-383
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00118884
Abstract
Primary health care in Cameroon meets with serious obstacles. The state gives it a low priority in its budget and over-all policy. The health institutions are rarely active in this field. Institutions which do practice some primary health care are usually foreign. The villagers, finally, are little interested. They insist only on improvement of curative services and material life conditions. The conclusion is that primary health care is regarded as something of secondary importance. First comes a better life. The research for this paper was conducted in 1980 in the South of Cameroon.Keywords
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