Health-Care Lessons from International Experience

Overseas experience can help provide understanding of the potentials of recent innovations in health care. In any attempt to achieve social equity in distribution of services and a comprehensive community emphasis, the critical need is reallocation of roles in the health team. Rural-health research in developing countries has defined some general principles and practical mechanisms for widening the range of responsibility of community doctors rather than continuing to use them mainly to provide primary medical care.Countries such as India are reluctantly realizing that a health manpower policy that concentrates mainly on producing doctors is inappropriate. An educational system that . . .