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Primary health care Primary health care (PHC) addresses the majority of a person’s health needs throughout their lifetime This includes physical, mental and social well-being and it is people-centred rather than disease-centred PHC is a whole-of-society approach that includes health promotion, disease prevention, treatment, rehabilitation and palliative care
Primary health care - World Health Organization (WHO) Primary health care is an approach to health and wellbeing centred on the needs and circumstances of individuals, families and communities It addresses comprehensive and interrelated physical, mental and social health and wellbeing
Understanding primary health care Primary care refers to the delivery of services, over a person’s life course, that are close to where they live These services meet most people’s health needs, including preventing and treating illness; delivering reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health care; managing chronic health conditions; rehabilitation; and palliative care
Primary health care - India Primary health care is a whole-of-society approach to effectively organize and strengthen national health systems to bring services for health and wellbeing closer to communities
Primary health care Primary health care is about health at all ages It involves prevention, health promotion, treatment, rehabilitation and palliation This approach empowers people and communities to choose healthier lifestyles, prevent diseases, and access early detection, treatment and recovery services Primary health care is not about building specific health facilities It is an overall approach to
Implementing the primary health care approach: a primer This Primer is about the 'how' of primary health care (PHC) and brings together best practices and knowledge that countries have generated through 'natural experiments' in strengthening PHC with the best available research evidence Despite the progress made towards PHC globally, the concept is still often misunderstood, even within the public health community
Primary health care - World Health Organization (WHO) Primary health care WHO established the Special Programme on Primary Health Care in 2020, following the Global Conference on Primary Health Care and the UN high-level meeting on universal health coverage, where countries declared their commitment to achieving universal health coverage through a primary health care approach
Declaration of Alma-Ata - World Health Organization (WHO) International conference on primary health care The Alma-Ata Declaration of 1978 emerged as a major milestone of the twentieth century in the field of public health, and it identified primary health care as the key to the attainment of the goal of Health for All