Primary Health Care
PHC
HEALTH FOR ALL APPROACH
, Objectives:
Students should know how to:
1-Define PHC
2-Describe the concept of PHC and how it
relates to basic health services
3-List the elements and principles of PHC
4-Define the promotive services
5-Define the preventive services
6-Define the curative care services
,WHO-UNICEF held international conference
in 1978 at Alma-Ata (USSR),the
governments of 134 countries and many
voluntary agencies called for a
revolutionary approach to health care.
The Alma-Ata conference called for
acceptance of the WHO goal for Health for
All(HFA) by the year 2000 and proclaimed
primary health care as a way to achieving
Health for all.
, PHC (cont.)
The Alma-Ata Conference defined PHC as
follows:-
"Primary health care is essential health care based on
practical, scientifically sound, and socially
acceptable methods and technology made
universally accessible to individuals and families in
the community through their full participation and
at a cost the community & country can afford to
maintain at every stage of their development in the
spirit of self determination".
PHC
HEALTH FOR ALL APPROACH
, Objectives:
Students should know how to:
1-Define PHC
2-Describe the concept of PHC and how it
relates to basic health services
3-List the elements and principles of PHC
4-Define the promotive services
5-Define the preventive services
6-Define the curative care services
,WHO-UNICEF held international conference
in 1978 at Alma-Ata (USSR),the
governments of 134 countries and many
voluntary agencies called for a
revolutionary approach to health care.
The Alma-Ata conference called for
acceptance of the WHO goal for Health for
All(HFA) by the year 2000 and proclaimed
primary health care as a way to achieving
Health for all.
, PHC (cont.)
The Alma-Ata Conference defined PHC as
follows:-
"Primary health care is essential health care based on
practical, scientifically sound, and socially
acceptable methods and technology made
universally accessible to individuals and families in
the community through their full participation and
at a cost the community & country can afford to
maintain at every stage of their development in the
spirit of self determination".
