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2 WHO
Primary health care enables health systems to support a
person’s health needs – from health promotion to disease
prevention, treatment, rehabilitation, palliative care and more.
The COVID-19 response addresses the pillars and areas covered
in WHO's Strategic Preparedness and Response Plan. Find out
about our actions behind the scenes and in countries across the
world on prevention, surveillance, containment, treatment,
coordination and much more.(WHO.INT, 2021)
ELEMENTS OF
PRIMARY
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UHC
HEALTH CARE Universal health coverage (UHC) is meant to access
IN COVID-19 the key health services including disease prevention,
treatment, rehabilitation, and health promotion. They
finance pandemic response and increase the capacity
of their health systems to manage the outbreak as
well as secure covid-19.(Tandon june 02, 2021)
4 OECD HEALTHCARE
it provides the first line of defense by providing care for
mild COVID‑19 cases and helping to diagnose, track, trace
and stop the spread of the outbreak. It can help increase
uptake of public health measures, support people
psychologically and link with social services during the
acute phase of the pandemic.(0ECD,2020)