World Health Organization : Year 1990, World Health Organization, Strengthening of Health Service, No. 90.1: Primary Health Care towards the Year 2000

By World Health Organization

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Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	World Health Organization : Year 1990, World Health Organization, Strengthening of Health Service, No. 90.1: Primary Health Care towards the Year 2000
Author:	World Health Organization
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Language:	English
Subject:	Health., Public health, Wellness programs
Collections:	Medical Library Collection, World Health Collection
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Publisher:	World Health Organization


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Medical Reference Publication

Excerpt
This report addresses the future of primary health care in the 1990s, and considers the implications for the role of WHO. Many working successes in primary health care can be found, and many system-wide failures. Greater clarity of purpose and better information on factors contributing to success and failure are needed. The central principle of equity as the locomotive for primary health care needs re-emphasis in the rapidly-changing environment of the 1990s. PHC strategies need to develop pluralistic and flexible responses to achieving equity in shifting socio- political circumstances, and in a wide range of economic and ecological conditions. The report is in six sections. The first selectively reviews what can be learned from the decade of PHC experience since Alma-Ata. The second identifies the principal parameters of global change in the coming decade, and illustrates their effects on health and health care. The third section summarizes discussion on six current issues which will remain critical in enhancing or retarding PHC implementation in the coming decade. The fourth section maps out three major areas of need for better monitoring of PHC, and the fifth draws together conclusions for the discussions of the Committee. Recommendations for action by WHO are contained in the sixth, and final, section.

Table of Contents
CONTENTS X . BACKGROUND AND CONTEXT ................................ 1 2 . THE CHANGING GLOBAL CONTEXT OF THE 1990s ................ 3 3 . IMPLEMENTING PHC IN THE 1990s ............................ 8 4. MONITORING PROGRESS IN PHC ............................ 12 5 . CONCLUSIONS ............................................ 13 6. RECOMMENDATIONS: ACTION BY WHO FOR THE 1990s ......... 15