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The purpose of this guide is to provide medical, health, nursing students and healthcare providers with essential knowledge and skills for implementation of primary health care with orientating of their knowledge toward community-based health care services. The expected outcomes are to enable the students and healthcare providers to take proactive roles in identifying and analyzing health needs at the population and individual levels with reactive response to these needs and apply concepts of Primary Health Care in a programmatic manner. The goal of this guide is to educate and train medical, health, nursing students and healthcare providers to be knowledgeable and skilled in provision of public health services.

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Al-Shebli, Riyadh Kareem Abbood
Riyadh Kareem Abbood is a consultant and public health physician with more than 20 years of experience in management of primary health care program and ten years of experience in training of public health and nursing students in Kufa University.

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