Introduction To Primary Health Care
Health is a fundamental human right.The individual,community,the nation and the goverment all have to play their respective roles collectively and actively in achieving health.Majority of the world population is living in low-income group,which could not affort the modern tech
nology of treatment.Therefore, they lack basic health facilities.It is estimated that more than half of the world population inhabiting mostly in rural areas,does not have acess to proper health care..This inequality can be seen between developed and developing countries as well as rural and urban areas within a country.It is not desirable and aceptable.Therefore new approach to health care came into existence in 1978,following an international conference at Alma-Ata(USSR).This is known as "Primary Health Care"The Alma-Ata conference defined primary health care as follows.Primary health care is an essential health care made universally acessible to individuals and acceptable to them,through their full participation and at a cost the community andcountry can afford.
nology of treatment.Therefore, they lack basic health facilities.It is estimated that more than half of the world population inhabiting mostly in rural areas,does not have acess to proper health care..This inequality can be seen between developed and developing countries as well as rural and urban areas within a country.It is not desirable and aceptable.Therefore new approach to health care came into existence in 1978,following an international conference at Alma-Ata(USSR).This is known as "Primary Health Care"The Alma-Ata conference defined primary health care as follows.Primary health care is an essential health care made universally acessible to individuals and acceptable to them,through their full participation and at a cost the community andcountry can afford.
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