Summary of Study Session 1
In Study Session 1, you have learned that:
- Ethiopia has radically changed the structure of its health service in order to focus on Primary Health Care and preventive services in the rural communities where most people live.
- Ethiopia’s health delivery system is organised into a four-tier system. Its first level is the Primary Health Care Unit which is based around one Health Centre and five Health Posts serving a total of 25,000 rural people.
- Primary Health Care is the lowest level of essential health care that is provided to the majority of the population of Ethiopia at a cost that the country and the community can afford. It mainly focuses on prevention and control of communicable diseases, and the promotion of health and wellbeing of individuals and families.
- The Health Service Extension Programme (HSEP) is an innovative community-based programme. It is a country-specific health delivery system designed to reach the rural communities where most of the people live. It uses trained and salaried Health Extension Workers/Practitioners to help the community maintain its own health.
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1.7 Development of the Health Service Extension Programme