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THE current issue of Biology and Human Affairs (14, No. 2 ; Autumn 1948) contains an article on the Family Health Service in South Africa, where twenty health centres have been established in various parts of the country by the Ministry of Health. A description is given of the Polela Health Centre which was set up in 1940 in a rural native reserve in southwestern Natal. The family health service was first applied to a small area within the reserve and was gradually extended until, within four years, almost six thousand people were included in the scheme. This has led to a marked improvement in the health indices in that part of Polela where the family health service is in operation, and other health services have now been planned for the reserve, so extending the facilities to the entire population of the area. The article contains a detailed account of the way in which the service has been organised.
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Family Health Service in South Africa. Nature 163, 92 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/163092d0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/163092d0