Research on the Current Status and Training Strategy of Rural Primary Health Care Providers

After long time of exploration and hard work, most countries in the world form their own systems of primary health care to a certain extent with primary health care providers having different features. Combined with specific national conditions of our country, generalized definition of the primary health care providers should include relevant government employees participating in provision of primary health care and health workers, and narrow definition of primary health care providers includes rural and urban basic health service providers. Rural primary health care work is mainly composed of towns and townships, rural community health service centers and village health posts, health management and health technical personnel. The level of primary health care provider is mainly come from the community health service center, health management and health technical personnel. Therefore, the training for primary health care providers should focus on the basic health workers.