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Primary Healthcare and its Practice in Developing Countries

   

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Primary Healthcare and its Practice in Developing Countries 1
Primary Healthcare and its Practice in Developing Countries
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Introduction
Project Piaxtla is located in the western parts of Mexico. It is a rural primary
healthcare program that is majorly operated by its local villagers. It was named after the close
by river known as Piaxtla. Piaxtla healthcare was established three decades ago with its
primary being to serve the larger, sparsely and rugged populace of this part of the country in
the state of Sinaloa. The program is located in Ajoya, which is the biggest village with a
population of approximately 1000. Since the inception of the program it has been led by
David Werner who has been acting as the advisor and facilitator of the healthcare service.
Before the healthcare was established, people of Piaxtla were faced with a rage of challenges
such as they were dominated by the “disease of poverty” in the health scene. As a result, one
out of three kids could die before locking the age of five years. These children were faced
with diseases such as diarrhoea as well as other infectious that were combined with chronic
undernutrition (Donelson, and Esparza, 2016). On the other hand, seven out of ten women
were at risk of suffering from anaemia and one out of the two women could die at or after
child bearing.
Certainly, this adverse condition was as a result of majority of the population in the
regions facing the problem of inequitable distribution of wealth, land, and power. Most of the
individuals in the region came from poor families that possessed either little or no land at all.
However, if they owned land it was of inferior quality. To the contrary, the few rich people
were in possession of large tracks of fertile land, which was in the river valley. Therefore,
they were in position to rear huge herds of cattle making them to very wealthy. Consequently,
due to the wealth possessed by the rich in the region, it gave them power to control the Ajoya
community council. Subsequently, these individuals constantly acted as stamping blocks to
all the attempts by the poor farmers to organize as well as make demands for their
constitutional land rights. Thus, they could even resort to violence at times when they felt that
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it was necessary so as to make sure that they were able to maintain their dominant positions.
Therefore, David Werner, plays a significant part in ensuring that Piaxtla healthcare works to
save people of western Mexico particularly from Piaxtla village do not suffer the challenge of
death rate among children below five years as well as the loss of life of women due to
anaemia.
Literature that Contributes to Participatory Approaches to Planning in Development
and Health
The participatory approaches used by Project Piaxtla fall under various plans such as
curative care to social action, practices to defend the health as well as rights of the less
fortunate in the society, and the working of women in unison to condemn the excessive
drinking among men.
Piaxtla’s Evolution from Curative Care to Social Action
The improvement strategies for Project Piaxtla health have been grouped into three
classes. The initial stage primarily focused on curative care, which was the core need for
Ajoya community (Abel-Smith, 2016). Accordingly to make sure that the project becomes a
success, the village healthcare supporters were trained through participation, making sure that
participants become competent in the treatment of common injuries and diseases as well as
learning-by-doing methods. Thus, as time went by the participants and the health team as
well as the villagers who were being served got used to the diseases and injuries that kept
occurring repeatedly. As a result, the second stage for the project’s health team slowly by
slowly moved its concentration to preventive and enhancement of healthcare measures like
water systems, latrines and immunizations. Therefore, in the course of this stage some of the
illnesses started to become less common, which led to noticeable improvements in Ajoya
village healthcare. Consequently, the number of death cases due to whooping cough and
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