primary health care

As you know, we have made the primary health care approach a focus for wide consultation.

Q: Initially, you didn't think it was a good idea to hold an international conference on primary health care, why was that?

Q: Is primary health care as much of a pressing priority now as it was then?

The kind of integrated service delivery promoted by primary health care is put forward as a model for organizing health care.

For evaluation of a new breast lump or changes on your breast exam, you're likely to start by seeing your primary health care provider.

But I did want to make this point about the importance of health systems, as it reinforces my commitment to integrated primary health care.

Let me conclude by again expressing my appreciation for this region's renewed commitment to primary health care.

You must know where you want your values to take you, and that's where we had to use the primary health care strategy.

Last month, WHO issued its World health report, this year devoted to primary health care, which also brings a strong focus on prevention.

I was pleased to see primary health care mentioned so frequently in the documents prepared for this session.

Decades of experience tell us that primary health care produces better health outcomes, at lower costs, and with higher user satisfaction.

Fortunately, the need to strengthen health systems, based on primary health care, is beginning to receive deserved attention in high places.

Maintain your renewed commitment to primary health care, as set out in the Ouagadougou Declaration.

Polio eradication can be a potent arrow head for transforming routine immunization and primary health care systems.

For all of these reasons, we are placing renewed emphasis on primary health care as an approach to strengthening health systems.

Advocate for the provision of good quality mental health services in primary health care, general hospital settings and in the community.

Objective Do feasibility study of bringing Tuberculosis Control into line with the Primary Health Care.

And the biggest disappointment was when some United Nations agencies switched to a 'selective' approach to primary health care.

The primary health care provider is positioned to detect osteoporosis and its risk factors before signs and symptoms occur.

But a primary health care approach is essential to ensure that activities are better integrated.

Nutrition, previously profiled as a main pillar of primary health care, has been notoriously and dangerously neglected in recent years.

To provide quality primary health care services for promoting the health of our elderly population.

Prevention and treatment are best managed through a primary health care approach.

And you are doing so as part of a greater drive to reach universal health coverage, a tenet of primary health care.

Dr Jama first worked with WHO in 1988 when he was project officer for primary health care development, in Somalia and later in Djibouti.

Both are part of the agenda for strengthening health systems and revitalizing primary health care.

Affecting Mechanism and Countermeasure Countermove Analysis of Government in Primary Health Care.

There is still a memory of primary health care in WHO's regions and Member States, and among NGOs supporting WHO that can be re-awakened.

The ongoing nature of the care means it is more effectively provided in community-based settings, such as primary health care centres.

Ethiopia and Nigeria have begun training their primary health care personnel to identify and treat priority mental disorders.

A survey of primary health care facilities in Bangladesh found the absenteeism rate among doctors to be 74 percent.

provides primary health care , referrals and preventive services , and also offers a subsidized dental service.

This strategy is now an important tool for extending primary health care.

Given my commitment to primary health care, evidence that supports community- and home-based care pleases me most especially.

Our methods provide useful tools for evaluating long-running community-based primary health care programmes.

Delivering Quality, Serving communities. Nurse Leading Primary Health Care.

the health sector (through the detection and treatment of victims by primary health care workers).

CONCLUSION: Primary health-care personnel play a significant role in the provision of reproductive health care for women.

These concerns about access and equity further reinforce my commitment to the primary health care approach.

NCCPs fit in the broader WHO framework to strengthen health systems with a major focus on primary health care.

On Monday, WHO staff visited hospitals and primary health care facilities in Ramallah and Bethlehem districts.

Thirty years ago, the Declaration of Alma-Ata launched primary health care as the route to greater fairness in health.

Group cognitive-behavioral treatments under the guidance of nurses familiar with the treatment are recommended to primary health care.

We have backing from the Commission on Social Determinants of Health and from the renewed commitment to primary health care.

Primary health care is a people-centred, holistic approach to health that makes prevention as important as cure.

Provide appropriate mental health training for primary health care and community workers.

Third, we must make fairness, as articulated by the values, principles and approaches of primary health care, our overarching goal.

It delivers first-rate clinical care, in a public health approach, according to the principles of primary health care.

This year's World Health Report calls for a renewal of primary health care.

It will concentrate on the role of primary health care in providing access to the essential prerequisites for health.

As noted, a community-based health workforce is the backbone of a health system based on primary health care.

I have decided to focus the World Health Report 2008 on primary health care and its role in strengthening health systems.

WHO advocates for the integration of neurological care into primary health care.

Diagnostic and treatment services for TB are integrated into primary health care in most countries.

In addition to skin care products and health products as the primary health care product sales increased significantly.

Health for all is a value system with primary health care as the strategic component.

Primary health care increasingly looks like a smart way to get health development back on track.

This revival of interest in primary health care pleased me most especially.

A renewed commitment to primary health care underpins efforts to improve the health of women.

As my last remark, I believe that, when we talk about primary health care, we must also acknowledge the great ingenuity of communities.

Headache disorders are mostly, and rightly, managed in primary health care.

Last month, WHO issued its World Health Report, this year focused on primary health care and subtitled "Now more than ever" .

These and other plans emphasize social equity as a central tenet of primary health care.

Tomorrow, I will be commenting on the importance of this region's commitment to a renewal of primary health care.

In some Asian and African countries, 80% of the population depend on traditional medicine for primary health care.

Primary health care was officially launched in 1978, when WHO member states signed the Alma Ata Declaration.

I am committed to integrated primary health care as a strategy for strengthening health systems.

A: We are integrating mental health care into the primary health care structure.

With their various duties, the consequence of the primary health care team is amazing.

They want to make sure that equitable and accessible systems built on primary health care are not sacrificed in the process.

He joined WHO in 1991 serving as medical officer for primary health care development in Afghanistan.

That is when a community pharmacist, as a primary health care professional, can tell us how to take the right drug and take drug right.

Primary health care was misconstrued as poor care for poor people.

Traditional medicine continue to play an essential role in health care, especially in primary health care.

Primary health care embraced a holistic view of health that went well beyond a narrow medical model.

For many people, primary health care is the only access to medical care they have.

Fourth, keep in mind the principles of primary health care.

On the eve of the conference, WHO will launch the World health report 2008 entitled Primary health care: now more than ever.

Therefore, the development of family and community and primary health care-oriented technology and information services is a priority.

Now, more than ever, there are opportunities to start changing health systems towards primary health care in all countries.

Dr Guo is an active advocate of health policy, primary health care, rural health and health promotion in China.

These symptoms should send you promptly to your primary health care giver, who will make the diagnosis of RSI, if you do have it.

This is why our work to reinvigorate the primary health care approach is so important.

A commitment to equity is central to the value system of primary health care.

Contribute to health system strengthening based on primary health care.

This year, the World Health Report is devoted to primary health care.

In other words, it uses primary health care to get the burden down.

In October 2008, WHO will issue its World Health Report on primary health care.

Essential medicines system has been implemented, the development of primary health care institutions are facing difficulties.

It may cost a lot, not only for converting vertical programmes, but for health systems based on primary health care concepts.

What role can primary health care play in this quest?

Over 75 percent of all counties fulfilled targets in the rural primary health care program.

The National Health Service (NHS) is based on a primary health care model.

There is another bright side to the UN event, and that is the emphasis given to primary health care.

Support the development of mental health services in primary health care, general hospitals and in the community.

In all, some 250, 000 people still lack access to primary health care according to the Pan American Health Organisation.

I have heard about the importance of primary health care repeatedly during my visits to Latin America, Africa, Europe and Asia.

When I took office at the start of last year, I called for a return to primary health care as an approach to strengthening health systems.

15 samples of non-pilot counties, 79 primary health care institutions (of which 55 township hospitals, community health service centers 24).

Having said this, I want to commend PAHO and its member states for their enduring commitment to primary health care.

That is, strengthening health systems based on primary health care.

How can WHO revitalize primary health care now and what is your involvement?

In Mongolia, WHO is supporting the integration of mental health care into primary health care.

Last year I attended the first in a series of regional conferences devoted to primary health care.

In China, it is necessary to employ the notion in the development of rural and urban primary health care system.

During my tenure in Hong Kong, I introduced primary health care from the diaper to the grave.

My third reason for personal encouragement is this: primary health care is making a comeback on the development agenda.

Student: You have just mentioned the primary health care team. Can you give us some explanations?

acknowledge traditional medicine as part of primary health care, to increase access to care and preserve knowledge and resources; and

Implementation and research of bringing tuberculosis control into line with the Primary Health Care in Xinmi city

Integrating mental health care within the primary health care system;

Developing Rural Community Health Service, Improving Primary Health Care

To Guide Primary Health Care with International Experiences for Further Development

offer primary health care: treat illnesses, mother and child care, psychosocial support

Construction of New Socialist Countryside and Primary Health Care

An assessment of integration of tuberculosis control program into primary health care in rural area

Assessment on the role of Joint Primary Health Care System in rural area for malaria surveillance and control

examine the contribution to health made by selected models of primary health care in recent decades;

Strengthening of Primary Health Care: Development of New Tools for Disease Prevention and control;

Mongolia: making mental health care available through primary health care

Increasing input, innovating mechanism, creating a new situation of primary health care

Primary Health Care Is the Basis of Health Equity for Constructing Harmonious Society

Australian Primary Health Care Research Institute

Comparative analysis of indexes on experimental period and popular period of primary health care in Shandong Province

International advance on primary health care after Alma-Ata conference

Discussion on Supervision of High Risk Medical Devices Use in the Primary Health Care Sector

International Conference on Primary Health Care;

WHO Collaborating Centre in Primary Health Care Research - West Bank;

Professional Diploma Programme in Primary Health Care

Assessment and Evaluation of Primary Health Care Activities in 1999 in Rural Areas of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region

Methods in developing and using quality guideline in primary health care

Quality Security of Primary Health Care Service of UK National Health System

Conference on Community Financing in Primary Health Care;

Social and Behavioral Foundations of Primary Health Care

CCIMDAOPHC QQQ; Collaborating Centre in Primary Health Care Research - West Bank;

PHC; Primary Health Care Operations Research;

Collaborating Centre in Manpower Development Aspects of Primary Health Care Research;

The Essential of Primary Health Care and a Review of Its Development in China

Review and prospect on implementing primary health care in rural area of China

Scandinavian journal of primary health care

Discussion on Legislation of Primary Health Care

WHO Collaborating Centre in Primary Health Care;

General practice and primary health care in Great Britain

training primary health care workers on ear and hearing care;

The primary health care in countryside during the period of SARS outbreak

On progress evaluation of Primary Health Care implemented in rural China in 20th century

Asian Training Centre for Primary Health Care;

supporting the strengthening of health systems based on the primary health care approach;

Global development of Primary Health Care and progress in evaluation

management of waste at primary health care centres

PRICOR; Primary Health Care Programme of Mozambique;

Alma-Ata Declaration on Primary Health Care;

training of primary health care workers

access to age-friendly primary health care;

Alma-Ata Conference on Primary Health Care;

Discussion on choice and basic tactics of rural primary health care of China in the early days of 21 st Century

continually promoting health systems based on primary health care; and

Rural health care should be based on the principle of Primary Health Care

Division of Primary Health Care

A comparative study of primary health care in China and Germany

NGO Group on Primary Health Care;

World Health Report 2008 on primary health care

Trends and Problems of Rural Primary Health Care System in China

Policy Recommendations on the Wide Expansion of Primary Health Care in China in the 21st Century

The Development of Primary Health Care in New Period