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មជ្ឈមណ្ឌលជាតិលើកកំពស់សុខភាព

The National Centre for Health Promotion

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Primary Health Care

Primary health care is a whole society approach for health to ensure better health and wellbeing by focusing on population’s needs and timely response to those needs including provision of services from prevention, protection up to treatment rehabilitation and palliative care.

Primary health care has been at the heart of Cambodia's health system reform since 1995. Operational district health systems, which include health centers and referral hospitals that provide basic geographical and demographic services, have played an important role in strengthening health infrastructure, providing efficient, equitable services that can better meet the needs of the population and has contributed to significantly reducing maternal, and child mortality and infant under five years and some infectious diseases such as AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis.

What the Unit Does

The Primary Health Care Unit of the National Center for Health Promotion is responsible for strengthening mechanisms for community involvement to ensure quality primary health care services for people. This includes training of village health support groups and the health center management committees. The Unit has opened training courses for health center management committees in provinces. Besides this, the Unit has conducted visits to monitor the work progress of health center management committees and village health support groups and has updated the guidelines on the implementation of the National Policy for Primary Health Care.

Reports

Case Studies

  • Community Engagement in Health Center Development

    Health centers are the lowest level of health care systems in Cambodia. A health center covers an average of 10,000 people, a number of villages, covers one or two or three communes, and so on. Health centers have a lot of work, including technical work, management, and relations with people from all walks of life. However some major achievements can only be made with everyone’s hard work and efforts. For example, Chrey health center, located on national road 5, Hai San village, Chrey commune, Thmor Koul district, Battambang Province, has built a fence around it with the participation of the community.

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Policies and Guidelines

  • Primary Health Care Booster Implementation Framework (PHC-BIF)

    Primary health care has been at the heart of Cambodia's health system reform since 1995. Operational district health systems, which include health centers and referral hospitals that provide basic geographical and demographic services, have played an important role in strengthening health infrastructure, providing efficient, equitable services that can better meet the needs of the population and has contributed to significantly reducing maternal, and child mortality and infant under five years and some infectious diseases such as AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis

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  • COVID-19 Guidelines for Health Centre Management Committee and Village Health Support Group

    These guidelines list the work that the Health Centre Management Committee and Village Health Support Group must commit to in helping prevent the spread of COVID-19. The guidelines for the practice of Health Management Committee and Village Health Support Group aim to contribute to the decrease of infection and fatality rates as well economic impacts caused by COVID-19 through community engagement.

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