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Prototype For A Rural Primary Healthcare Center In Paraguay, Maria Virginia Matiauda Schneider
Prototype For A Rural Primary Healthcare Center In Paraguay, Maria Virginia Matiauda Schneider
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Primary Health Care Centers in Paraguay are the architectural settings for the first level of access to healthcare in Paraguay, providing health promotion, pre- vention, diagnosis, treatment, and health education. These centers are built based on four standard typologies, of which two consist of permanent health- care facilities and two of satellite or mobile units. Standard designs for these centers typically consist of residential scaled buildings, with spaces linked by a single central circulation corridor and lacking adequate attention to ventilation and daylight.
The public healthcare system in Paraguay is organized around four levels of care, and the complexity and …