Mobile clinics: what can they do and achieve?

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Title:	Mobile clinics: what can they do and achieve?
Author:	Buch, Erich
Year:	1984
Issue:	196
Pages:	7
Language:	English
Series:	Carnegie conference paper
City of publisher:	Cape Town
Publisher:	SALDRU, School of Economics, University of Cape Town
ISBN:	0799207136
Geographic terms:	Gazankulu South Africa
Subject:	health centres
Abstract:	Preface by John GEAR. A HSDU (Health Services Development Unit, Department of Community Health of Witwatersrand Medical School) paper. Mobile clinics are an interim step that help to buy the time needed to develop comprehensive primary health care services. They are not an end point, because of their inability to provide continous care and to be effective in community work. However, because of the poverty of Gazankulu, mobile clinics providing an adequate range of good quality care will be an appropriate interim component of the health services. Two very significant obstacles: a lack of resources to deliver enough mobile services; under current constraints development of comprehensive primary health care services will take so long, that mobile clinics will become a permanent part of the health service.