...and to social services. Primary health care is defined as follows by the World Health Organization: 'Primary health care is essential health care based...participation and at a cost that the community and the country can afford to maintain at every stage of their development in the spirit of self-reliance...

...System and the Community Essential Concepts in Ensuring Health Care for All Priorities for Action • Is essential health care. • Based on practical,...sound and socially acceptable methods and technology. • Universally accessible to all in the community through their full participation. • At an affordable...

...made universally accessible to individuals and families in the community by means acceptable to them, through their full participation and at a cost that the community and country can afford, health care was for once given a democratic image as ordinary users of health care facilities and services...

...World Health Assembly, in subsequent deliberations in 1979, defined primary health care as follows: Essential health care based on practical, scientifically sound, and socially acceptable methods and technologies made universally accessible to individuals and families in the community by means acceptable...

...health care" approach. The definition of primary health care is included in the Alma-Ata Declaration: Primary health care is essential health care based...full participation and at a cost that the community can afford to maintain at every stage of their development in the spirit of self-reliance and self...

...the World Healdi Assembly at its subsequent meeting in May 1979. Primary health care was defined as Essential health care based on practical, scientifically...accessible to individuals and families in the community by means acceptable to them and at a cost that the community and the country can afford to maintain...

...care as Essential health care, based on practical, scientifically sound, socially acceptable meihods and technology, made universally accessible to individuals...participation and at a cost that the community and the country can afford. It forms an integral part of bolh the country's health system, of which it...

...made universally accessible to individuals and families in the community by means acceptable to them, through their full participation and at a cost that the community and country can afford." Furthermore, it was stated that people have a right and duty to participate individually and collectively...

...achieving successful home-based long-term care is an approach that focuses on the needs of people with "Primary health care is essential health care based...scientifically sound and socially acceptable methods, and made universally accessible to individuals and families, at a cost they can afford. It should address...

...a level of health that will permit them to lead a socially and economically productive life. 5. PHC is essential health care based on practical, scientifically...sound, and socially acceptable methods and technology. 6. It is the first level of contact of individuals, the family, and the national health system bringing...