Primary Health Care

• Barefoot doctors strategy: Trusted local people who are trained to treat common illnesses (e.g. common in China)
• Barefoot doctors effectiveness: Treat people quickly, saves taking long trips to hospitals from rural areas and takes pressure off hospitals.

  However there is limited procedures they can do.

  A lack of volunteers as they would rather be paid in an urban area
• Oral rehydration treatment solution: Mix of sugar, clean water and salt to tackle dehydration from diarrhoea
• Oral rehydration treatment effectiveness: Cheap so good for developing countries, can be administered by anyone. The WHO estimates that 1 million babies have been saved by this
• Vaccination programmes solution: Run by UNICEF, prevents diseases (e.g. polio, measles, cholera)
• Vaccination programmes effectiveness: Polio has decreased by 99% since 1988. Expensive for charities to set up. Still over 18 million people not receiving vaccines
• Health eduction schemes solution: Helps educate people on issues such as AIDS or the benefits of a balanced diet
• Health education schemes effectiveness: Spoken education is more effective in places with low literacy rates. Often songs used to pass on information where literacy rates are low
• Building local health centres/charities solution: (e.g. Water aid), improves water and sanitation by adding facilities such as pit latrines
• Building local health centres/charities effectiveness: Local materials and labour are cheap, improves local peoples building skills. More people have access to clean water. Ash compost from the latrines can be used as fertiliser for crops
• Advice on basic sanitation solution: Such as how to properly wash hands
• Advice on basic sanitation effectiveness: Many diseases are water related so this is a simple and cheap way of preventing them
• Play pumps international solution: A roundabout which children can play of which extract water from the ground. Has been administered in places such as Malawi
• Play pumps international effectiveness: Easy to operate. Minimal maintenance required. However each system is expensive ($14,000) and charities rely on funding from the public
• Solar disinfection solution: Filling up clear plastic PET bottles and leaving them out in the sun for 6 hours. Done in places like Burkina Faso
• Solar disinfection effectiveness: UV-A Rays kills viruses, bacteria and parasites in the water. Cheap because the water bottles are being reused which is also good for the environment. Appropriate for developing countries due to the typical hot, sunny climate
• Door step delivery family planning education solution: E.g. in Bangladesh
• Door step delivery family planning education effectiveness: In many developing countries women cannot leave their house without a man so this allows them to be educated on these topics. Has decreased cases of HIV/AIDS