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Primary Health Care (CPHC)
In 2007, an international network of researchers and people involved in building comprehensive primary health care (CPHC) received funding to support research and research capacity-building. This network, associated with the People's Health Movement, includes individuals in India, Africa, Latin America, Europe, Canada and Australia. Problems of sustainability in selective primary health care programs, and the weakening of public health systems and their capacities to work intersectorally on the determinants of health and on building a more effective partnership with communities, led to calls for the renewal of comprehensive primary health care by the World Health Organization, the Pan-American Health Organization, and health ministries and civil society groups around the world.
Keeping this in mind, a team of researchers from James P. Grant School of Public health and ICDDR,B submitted their concept note with an aim to
"develop a culturally sensitive, demand based comprehensive primary health care delivery model for Bangladesh" and was successfully awarded a grant from the region 1: India and South Asia. Only 5 applicants were selected for the grant.
