Taking stock of alma-ata primary health care/health for all: moving toward new directions in global preventive health
Health for All by 2000,first declared at Alma-Ata in 1978, revolutionized primary health care (PHC) policy and planning based on a set of guiding values and principles of health services organization: equity, social justice, and health for all; community participation; appropriate use of resources;...
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SAGE Publications
2011
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| Online Access: | http://eprints.um.edu.my/8668/1/Wong-2011-Taking_Stock_of_Alma.pdf http://eprints.um.edu.my/8668/ |
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| Summary: | Health for All by 2000,first declared at Alma-Ata in 1978, revolutionized primary health care (PHC) policy and planning based on a set of guiding values and principles of health services organization: equity, social justice, and health for all; community participation; appropriate use of resources; and intersectoral action. Primarily, the historic significance of the Alma-Ata/Health for All (HFA) was to put preventive health on equal footing as curative medicine. |
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