[Monitoring of maternal and infantile care activities: experience of Tunisia basic health care services].

In the feamework of quality assessment, the basic service for health care of Tunis introduced in 1997 a service managing tool for prenatal activity monitoring. This paper aims to present the way this tool should be used its setting up within the basic health structures and its principal effects on the quality process. Prenatal activity monitoring is a process that allows evaluation, control and dysfunction level identification of a health program: it also permits a microplanification in order to compensate for its failings.

[The health care demand in the district of Tunis].

This study aims at evaluating the morbidity of Tunis city inhabitants during the last 6 months preceding the date of the study (June 1998) and at locating the medical care points. It has been led with home interviews. The sample has been selected in a random way and is supposed to give a fair view of the whole districts of Tunis city; it includes 374 families and 1747 individuals.