A "Markov cycle tree" cohort model was developed in Excel with Visual Basic to compare the number of deaths from pneumonia in children aged 1 to 59 months expected under three scenarios: 1) No curative services available, 2) Curative services provided by a highly-skilled but intermittent mobile clinic, and 3) Curative services provided by a low-skilled community health post.
Chemical and biological investigations of folk medicinal plants with the reputation of being curative have provided the world with many of clinical drugs of today [ 3].
One exception is Palestinian refugees, who have access to NCD preventive and curative care provided by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) [ 79], which has responsibility separate from UNHCR.
In the latter, the low prevalence of dental caries is predominantly due to children's intensive use of promoted preventive oral health measures, supported by appropriate curative care provided by an umbrella of accessible clinics and affordable health insurance.
Mothers and community leaders in both districts emphasized the need for growth monitoring, immunization, maternity care, antenatal care services and an increased range of other (particularly paediatric) curative services provided by APEs.
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).
However, even if targets were not met and impact data is not available, preventative and curative aid provided through the MoH network and partners must have played a role in preventing the outbreaks of epidemic diseases that were initially feared and in decreasing morbidity related to communicable diseases, and mother and child health.
In the control group, women will continue the usual healthcare consisting of curative care provided by their family doctor and preventive care according to the IMSS prevention programs focused on this age group (chronic disease screening) and provided by nurses according to the women's demand.
The private health sector ranges from qualified health professionals (often individuals who are also public providers) providing curative care to individuals with no technical skills or background knowledge selling medicines [ 9, 10].
