Role of primary health centres in sustaining health of rural people

Abstract:

Primary health care plays important role improving health of the people and providing basic health services in day to day life. Health care is responsible for the overall health and well being of the communities, families, patients and people. When individuals are suffering from a health problem, illness and diseases, they get medical treatment. In urban areas, these facilities are well developed but in rural area, people are still under these facilities because of unaware about medical facilities. In this way the present study focused on role of the primary health centres in improving health of rural people and examines the initiatives of the government in sustaining rural health in Chikkaballapur District.In this process, the present study is based on qualitative and quantitative in nature and the primary collected from rural people and secondary data collected from primary health cares centres. In this study, Total 120 respondents were selected from six taluks of Chikkaballapur district by using simple random method. In this background, the study explains role of primary health centres in sustain health of rural people.