Management for health services delivery

Sub-national and district management: Primary Health Care


About PHC

  • Declaration of Alma Ata, USSR, 6-12 September 1978
    (3 pages, pdf 12kb)
  • Health-for-all policy for the twenty-first century
    WHO Resolution 51/7, 1998
    (2 pages)
  • Is the declaration of Alma Ata still relevant to primary health care?
    Stephen Gillam, BMJ 2008;336;536-538
    Alma Ata is still relevant for effective healthcare systems:
    -- Primary health care is key to providing good value for money
       and enhancing equity
    -- Community participation and intersectoral action remain challenges in reducing health inequalities
    -- The changing global burden of disease and workforce shortages make effective integration of
       existing vertical programmes essential
    (4 pages, pdf 365kb)
  • Primary health care and the Millennium Development Goals: issues for discussion
    Pertti Kekki, 2003
    MDG health indicators; trends in the disease panorama; trends in demographics; trends in society; common problems and future issues, HR; organization and performance
    (16 pages, pdf 57kb)
  • Primary health care as a strategy for achieving equitable care
    A literature review commissioned by the Health Systems Knowledge Network
    Prof. J. De Maeseneer, S. Willems, A. De Sutter, M.D.,I. Van de Geuchte and M.L. 1; M.Billings,
    2007, WHO, Commission on the Social Determinants of Health

    -- The health (care) system as a social determinant of health
    -- Primary health care definition and evolution of concept
    -- Main features of PHC that facilitate health equity and intersectoral action
    -- Enabling and limiting factors of a strategy based on PHC
    -- Policy measures to enhance the impact of PHC on health equity
    (21 pages, 900kb)

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