| The author describes the administration and organization of a community-based health care system for the Philippines. This system would embrace preventive, curative, and rehabilitative aspects of health care and would aim at achieving targets in environmental health, control of communicable diseases, nutrition, MCH, health education, and primary medical care appropriate to each community. For such a service, practically trained stalf who can cope with the needs of rural communities are required. Recognizing this need for more relevant training, the Department of Medicine, University of the Philippines, is introducing a comprehensive community health programme (CCHP). Using its own st and a specially constructed community health centre, the university will provide health care to the total population of a rural municipality. At the same time, medical and paramedical students will train in the CCHP at both graduate and undergraduate lev will sociologists, health educators, anthropologists, etc. The CCHP will explore new approaches to public health, it will provide a model for community medicine, and it will teach the local people how they can participate in the further development of th community. The full scope, objectives, and implementation of the CCHP are reported in this booklet. |