At the health post, HEWs provide family planning service, antenatal care, assisted normal delivery, postnatal care, newborn care, immunizations, growth monitoring, nutritional advice, HIV voluntary testing and counseling, first aid, basic curative service, and referral services.
HCs provide a core set of basic curative services, preventative and limited inpatient care, including uncomplicated deliveries.
Reflecting differences inherited from the apartheid era, local government has traditionally focused on providing preventive and promotive services and basic curative services for children through a nurse-led model, as well as environmental health services, and provincial government has focused on adult and curative care, provided through a doctor-led model of care (Barron 2008).
In the selected kebeles, households having the target were identified by house to house visit (i.e. by census) using 30 health extension workers (high school graduates who undergo one year training program to deliver mainly packages of preventive and health promotion services and few basic curative services).
Once deployed, LHWs provide preventive, promotive care to children and mothers, and basic curative services for children.
The PHCU provides comprehensive, integrated and community-based preventive and basic curative services.
The BRAC health program provides education in preventive health and nutrition, as well as immunization, family planning, pregnancy and reproductive health care, and basic curative services.
The BRAC health program in Bangladesh provided preventive health and nutrition education, as well as immunization, family planning, pregnancy and reproductive health related care and basic curative services, which were delivered by voluntary community health workers selected from the women's credit group members by means of regular household visits.
The PHCCs provide preventive and basic curative services.
