Review of Primary Health Care Centre in Dharashiv District

Primary health care is basic health care universally available to individuals and acceptable to them through their full participation and at a cost that the community and the country can afford (W.H.O., 1978) the primary health center plays an important role in the health care system, i.e. emphasizes preventive rather than curative services. Provides first contact care to villagers. Primary health care implements all national programs and schemes under public health and family care. The primary health center extends outdoor and indoor treatment facilities and outreach services such as vaccination, family health care, family planning, blindness, and leprosy control, etc. (Agnihotri R.C 1995). From this point of view, this chapter considered only the distribution of primary healthcare centers within the studied region.