PRIMARY

HEALTH
CARE
CHAPTER 5

Reported by: Danica

Zaragoza

DEFINITION
The WHO definesPrimary Health
Carean essential health care made
universally acceptable 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 and
afford at every stage of development.

HISTORY
May 1977. The 30th World Health Assembly
adopted resolution which decided that the
main social target of governments and of
WHO should be the attainment by all the
people of the world by the year 2000 a
level of health that will permit them to lead
a socially and economically productive life.
September
6-12,
1978.
International
Conference in PHC was held in this year at
Alma Ata, USSR (Russia)

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October 19, 1979. The President of
the Philippines (Ferdinand Marcos)
issued Letter of Instruction (LOI) 949
which mandated the then Ministry of
Health to adopt PHC as an approach
towards design, development, and
implementation of programs which
focus health development at the
community level.

GOAL:
The global goal as stated in the Alma Ata
Declaration isHealth for All by the year
2000through self-reliance.
Health begins at home, in schools and in the
workplace because it is there where people
live and work that health is made or broken.
It also means that people will use better
approaches than they do now for preventing
diseases and alleviating unavoidable disease
and disability and have better ways of
growing up, growing old and dying gracefully.

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It also means that here will be even
distribution among the population of
whatever resources for health are
available.
It means that essential health
services will be accessible to all
individuals and families in an
acceptable andaffordableway.

ALMA ATA

DECLARATION
The International
Conference on Primary
Health Care, meeting in
Alma-Ata (Almaty,
Kazakhstan), USSR.
It expressed the need for
urgent action by all
governments, all health and
development workers, and
the world community to
protect and promote the
health of all people.

WHO

WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION

a specialized agency of the United
Nations (UN) that is concerned with
international public health.
States that its objective "is the
attainment by all people of the
highest possible level of health".
The ultimate goal of primary health
care is better health for all.

UNICEF
The United Nations Children's Fund is
a United Nations Program
headquartered in New York City that
provides long-term humanitarian and
developmental assistance to children
and mothers in developing countries

DOH

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH
The Philippine Department of Health
(abbreviated as DOH; Filipino:
Kagawaran ng Kalusugan) is the
executive department of the
Philippine government responsible
for ensuring access to basic public
health services by all Filipinos
through the provision of quality
health care and the regulation of all
health services and products. It is the

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