Challenges of Providing Primary Health Care

Seminar paper from the year 2014 in the subject Medicine - Public Health, grade: 2, University of Aberdeen (College of Life Sciences and Medicine), language: English, abstract: The WHO Constitution enshrines the highest attainable standard of health as a fundamental right of every human being. The right to health includes access to timely, acceptable and affordable healthcare of appropriate quality (WHO, 2013). However, billions of people especially in developing countries lack any Healthcare services for various reasons. The vibrant challenges countries face hinders the supply of healthcare that is terribly necessary for rural population of poor countries. Consequently, the 'health capital' of poorest of the poors is dire. Most of the developing countries lie in tropical areas, between the tropic of cancer and the tropic of capricorn. These areas are prone to diseases. So, developing countries also face the lion's share of the burden of diseases and at the same time lack the financial means to tackle the problem. This article highlights several issues connected to these challenges.