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The World Health Report 2008 - primary Health Care (Now More Than Ever)

Why a renewal of primary health care (PHC), and why now, more than ever? Globalization is putting the social cohesion of many countries under stress, and health systems are clearly not performing as well as they could and should. People are increasingly impatient with the inability of health services to deliver. Few would disagree that health systems need to respond better – and faster – to the challenges of a changing world. PHC can do that.

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Launch of the World Health Report at Almaty, Kazakhstan

Ann M. Veneman, Dr Anatoliy Dernovoy, and Dr Margaret Chan present the World Health Report 2008

Ann M. Veneman, Executive Director, UNICEF; Dr Anatoliy Dernovoy, Minister of Health, Republic of Kazakhstan; Dr Margaret Chan, Director-General, WHO

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:: Speech by WHO Director-General Dr Margaret Chan

PRESS RELEASE

- World Health Report calls for return to primary health care approach

- English [pdf 42kb]
- French [pdf 55kb]
- Russian [pdf 203kb]
- Spanish [pdf 48kb]

SUMMARY OF THE REPORT

- Primary Health Care - Now More Than Ever

- Arabic [pdf 63kb]
- Chinese [pdf 103kb]
- English [pdf 37kb]
- French [pdf 65kb]
- Russian [pdf 106kb]
- Spanish [pdf 35kb]

SELECT TABLES AND FIGURES

- Tables and Figures

LINKS

- Dr Halfdan Mahler speaks to the WHO Bulletin
- The Alma-Ata Declaration [pdf 26kb]
- More information on primary health care
- Commission on Social Determinants of Health

PODCAST

WHO podcast
Play now - duration 8min04sec [mp3 4.6Mb]

PHOTOS

- Pictures from the Report
- Primary health care in countries
- Primary health care in all settings

B ROLL

- Streaming video
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- B-Roll shot list [pdf 18kb]

AUDIO

Technical Briefing on Primary Health Care at the World Health Assembly, May 08
- Streaming audio
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PRIMARY HEALTH CARE IN ACTION

- Country examples of diverse experiences of primary health care

Report by chapters

- Contents [pdf 129kb]
- Introduction and overview
- Chapter 1: The challenges of a changing world
- Chapter 2: Advancing and sustaining universal coverage
- Chapter 3: Primary care: putting people first
- Chapter 4: Public policies for the public’s health
- Chapter 5: Leadership and effective government
- Chapter 6: The way forward
- Index [pdf 124kb]

The World health report in portuguese

- Contents [pdf 382kb]
- Introduction and overview [pdf 555kb]
- Chapter 1: The challenges of a changing world [pdf 1.08Mb]
- Chapter 2: Advancing and sustaining universal coverage [pdf 809kb]
- Chapter 3: Primary care: putting people first [pdf 812kb]
- Chapter 4: Public policies for the public’s health [pdf 572kb]
- Chapter 5: Leadership and effective government [pdf 834kb]
- Chapter 6: The way forward [pdf 745kb]
- Index [pdf 323kb]

THE WORLD HEALTH REPORT 2008

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