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Conceptualizing Community Oriented Primary Care (COPC) – the Tshwane, South Africa, health post model

Nomonde Bam, Tessa Marcus, Jannie Hugo, Hans-Friedemann Kinkel
African Journal of Primary Health Care & Family Medicine | Vol 5, No 1 | a423 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.4102/phcfm.v5i1.423 | © 2013 Nomonde Bam, Tessa Marcus, Jannie Hugo, Hans-Friedemann Kinkel | This work is licensed under CC Attribution 4.0
Submitted: 08 February 2012 | Published: 22 February 2013

About the author(s)

Nomonde Bam, Department of Family Medicine, University of Pretoria, South Africa
Tessa Marcus, Department of Family Medicine, University of Pretoria, South Africa
Jannie Hugo, Department of Family Medicine, University of Pretoria, South Africa
Hans-Friedemann Kinkel, Department of Family Medicine, University of Pretoria, South Africa

Abstract

Conceptualizing Community Oriented Primary Care(COPC) – the Tshwane, South Africa, health post model


Keywords

COPC; health post; reengineering of PHC

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