Table 2.

Types of health care facilities at different levels of the health systems

	China	India	South Africa	Brazil
Community level (first contact)	–	Accredited Social Health Activist	Ward-based outreach teams	Family health care teams and Basic Health Units
Primary level (first contact)	Village health posts, rural township centres, village clinics and urban community health care centres (CHCs)	Sub-centres and primary health centres	Clinics or community health centres	Basic health units and emergency units
District level (generalist hospital care)	Level 1 hospitals (care offered by specialists)	Community health centres and sub-divisional hospitals	District hospitals	District hospitals
Secondary and tertiary level (specialist hospital care)	Level 2 and 3 hospitals	District hospitals and medical college hospitals	Regional, tertiary and central hospitals	Regional, tertiary and medical college hospitals