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District Health System:

A district health system consists of a large variety of interrelated elements that contribute to health in homes, schools, workplaces, and communities. It includes self- care and all health workers and facilities up to and including the hospital at first referral level and appropriate laboratory, other diagnostic and logistic support services. Its component elements need to be well coordinated by an officer assigned to this function in order to draw together all these elements and institutions into a fully comprehensive range of promotive, preventive, curative and rehabilitative health activities.

Primary Health Care:

The principal vehicle for the delivery of health care at the most local level of a country's health system (In South Africa at the district level). It is essential health care made accessible at a cost the country and community can afford with methods that are practical, scientifically sound and socially acceptable.

Public Health:

Organized efforts of society to protect, promote, and restore people's health. It is the combination of science, skills, and beliefs that is directed to the maintenance and improvement of the health of all the people through collective or social actions.

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