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Primary Health Care
Primary Health Care
CARE
DR.NASEER AHMED
DEFINITION:
Primary health care, often abbreviated as
"PHC", has been defined as "essential health
care based on practical, scientifically sound
and socially acceptable methods and
technology, made universally accessible to
individuals and families in the community.
CONT…
PHC goals are achieved through full
community participation and at a cost that
the community and the country can afford.
PHC includes all areas that play a role in
health, such as access to health services,
environment and lifestyle.
CONT….
This ideal model of health care was adopted
in the declaration of the International
Conference on Primary Health Care held in
Alma Ata, Kazakhstan in 1978 (known as the
"Alma Ata Declaration"), and became a core
concept of the World Health Organization's
goal of Health for all.
CONT…
The Alma-Ata Conference mobilized a
"Primary Health Care movement" of
professionals and institutions, governments
and civil society organizations, researchers
and grassroots organizations that undertook
to tackle the "politically, socially and
economically unacceptable" health
inequalities in all countries.
GOALS & PRINCIPLES OF PHC :
The ultimate goal of primary health care is
better health for all. The WHO has identified
five key elements to achieving that goal:
5.Community Involvement
CONCEPT OF HEALTH DISEASE
& ILLNESS :
HEALTH :
In 1948, WHO proposed a definition that
aimed higher, linking health to well-being, in
terms of "physical, mental, and social well-
being, and not merely the absence of
disease.
CONT…….
Illness & Disease :
Illness and disease are two words that are heard
commonly and are often interchanged.
Diagnosed
2 Diagnosed, uncontrolled disease
3 Undiagnosed or wrongly
diagnosed disease
Undiagnosed or
wrongly diagnosed disease
4 Risk factors for disease
B. chemoprophylaxis
CONT….
C. Use of specific nutrients or
supplementations.