Illustrative examples of innovative work deserving consideration for the Sasakawa Health Prize
-The development of primary health care schemes managed by communities themselves
- Cooperation among communities in transferring the capacity to manage primary health care
- Joint ministry of health/university action to establish primary health care in rural communities and/or in deprived urban and periurban communities
- Voluntary schemes that have led to ensuring primary health care in deprived urban and periurban communities
- Development and maintenance of community action to improve the nutritional status of infants and young children
- Innovative schemes for ensuring safe drinking-water and basic sanitation in communities
- Health educational activities that have led to a healthier human environment and individual and community lifestyles
- Outstanding individual initiative that has given rise to the establishment and maintenance of primary health care in communities
- Outstanding examples of voluntary organizations undertaking the health care of underprivileged populations and individuals
- Outstanding examples of women who have made significant contributions to health and development
- Successful programmes for ensuring the availability and proper use of essential drugs to the mass of the population
- Programmes for ensuring the immunization of children as part of primary health care that have promise for attaining the target of the Expanded Programme on Immunization
- Successful examples of referral systems
- Successful examples of district organization of health systems combining preventive and curative measures in primary health care and in the supportive referral levels
- Schools of medicine, nursing, health sciences and the like that have reformed their curricula so as to train students technically and attune them socially in such a way as to make them competent to set up and to provide primary health care in communities and to guide and supervise community health workers with more limited training
- Institutions that are training nonprofessional health workers adequately for the tasks they have to perform in primary health care
- Innovative in-service training schemes for all categories of community health workers
- Health systems research that has led to a more rational distribution of resources between primary health care and the rest of the health system
- Health systems research that has resulted in the combined delivery through primary health care of formerly separated health programmes
- Health systems research that has reduced the cost of providing the same level of health care and thus released resources to expand the provision of primary health care through the country
- Epidemiological studies that have laid the information basis for the rational development of health systems based on primary health care
- Successful examples of the control of leprosy through primary health care as part of a national strategy for health for all