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Primary Health Care in Africa: A Study of the Mali Rural Health Project (Westview Special Studies in Social Political and Economic Development)
Primary Health Care in Africa A Study of the Mali Rural Health Project - Westview Special Studies in Social Political and Economic Development Author:Clive Gray, Jacques Baudouy, Kelsey Martin, Molly Bang, Richard Cash The Mali Rural Health Project was designed as a model effort within the US foreign aid programme for extending rudimentary health services in rural areas of developing nations. Although some success was achieved, the programme proved to be too costly for nation-wide implementation, thus failing to achieve its immediate goals. The authors' assess... more »ment of the project's performance, however, provides lessons for health care development in Third World settings, in particular, the need to incorporate community mobilization and local cost recovery as facets of rural health care delivery systems.« less