Health sector challlenges and responses beyond the Alma-Ata declaration: a Caribbean perspective
Rev. panam. salud p£blica
; 21(2/3): 155-163, Feb.-Mar. 2007. tab
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ABSTRACT
Primary health care (PHC) is 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 through their full participation and at a cost that the community and country can afford to maintain at every stage of their development in the spirit of self-reliance and self-determination." For the effective delivery of PHC to occur, it must be undergirded by a national health system infrastructure that has five key components (1) development of health resources, such as manpower, facilities, equipment and supplies; (2) organized arrangement of health resources through the establishment of national health authorities, the provision of national health insurance, and the integration of public and private health services; (3) delivery of health care through the media of primary, secondary and tertiary health services; (4) economic support through sources, such as public financing and foreign aid; and (5) management through strong leadership, policy formulation, regulation and monitoring and evaluation (AU)
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01-internacional
Base de dados:
MedCarib
Assunto principal:
Atenção Primária à Saúde
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Organizações
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Região do Caribe
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Atenção à Saúde
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Serviços de Saúde
Aspecto:
Determinantes_sociais_saude
Limite:
Humans
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Rev. panam. salud p£blica
Ano de publicação:
2007
Tipo de documento:
Article