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Assessing the effect of primary health care on mortality in Ghana

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 September 2011

Sam Adjei
Sam Adjei
Affiliation:
University of Ghana Medical School, Accra
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The primary health care programme in Ghana has two objectives: (1) to achieve basic primary health care for 80% of the population of the country by 1990; (2) to attack the disease problems that contribute to 80% of the unnecessary deaths and disability afflicting Ghanaians, also by 1990.

Type
Monitoring interventions and assessment of their effects
Information
Journal of Biosocial Science , Volume 21 , supplement S10: Health Interventions and Mortality Change in Developing Countries , 1989 , pp. 115 - 125
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989

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