Shonubi Aderibigbe M O, Odusan Olatunde, Oloruntoba David O, Agbahowe Solomon A, Siddique M A
Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital, Sagamu, Nigeria.
J Natl Med Assoc. 2005 Jul;97(7):1020-6.
The World Health Organization's (WHO) concept of primary healthcare as the basis for comprehensive healthcare delivery for developing countries has not been effectively applied in many of these countries. The Kingdom of Lesotho, one of the world's least-developed countries, has been able to provide a fairly comprehensive healthcare system for its citizenry based on prmary healthcare principles and a strong commitment on the part of the government despite severe limitations of finance and human resource capacity as well as difficult mountainous terrains. This paper presents the highlights of this system of healthcare delivery with the hope that other developing countries would draw some lessons from the model.
世界卫生组织（WHO）提出的将初级医疗保健作为发展中国家全面医疗服务基础的理念，在许多此类国家并未得到有效应用。莱索托王国作为世界上最不发达的国家之一，尽管在财政、人力资源能力方面存在严重限制，且地形多山条件艰苦，但该国基于初级医疗保健原则并在政府的坚定承诺下，已能够为其民众提供相当全面的医疗体系。本文介绍了这一医疗服务体系的要点，希望其他发展中国家能从该模式中汲取一些经验教训。
