Primary health care centers are pillars of a sustainable health system of any society. Quality health care facilities can really cost a fortune. If we should count, an average family can go short of funds if they spent 10% of their household funds. But here we are primary health care facilities providing more accessible, affordable, quick response and more personal health care services to its immediate environment. However there are determinants of primary health care utilization, which we may not be aware exist. So this health education project topic spotlights this issue in detail in a research work. But what is in primary health care services, let us find out.

What is a primary health care center?
As defined by the World Health Organization and UNICEF, Primary health care center is a whole of society approach to health that aims at ensuring the highest possible level and well being and their equitable distribution by focusing on people’s health need as soon as possible along to promote health and disease prevention, care, treatment, rehabilitation, palliative, and close to the people’s environment.

Primary health centers have proven to be an immediate health care center for many societies while also cutting down the cost of quality health care. Statistics from the WHO shows that establishing primary health care centers across the low and middle income countries could save over 60million lives and be capable of increasing life expectancy by 3.7 years.

Why primary health care centers are established
Among other things, primary healthcare centers serves as
Pillars to the sustainable healthcare systems
They very equitable
Very accessible to remote communities
They are closer to the people and very proactive in detecting early signs of a pandemic or health crisis.
They are very accountable
They offer an effective method of physical and emotional well being including heart to heart talk in the people’s native languages.
Primary health care centers are inclusive in their services.


To take further into the determinants of primary health center utilization, please refer to the research topic above.

You have said nothing here. What are the determinants of PHC utilization, and you just gave definition and rationale of PHC