Primary health care - World Health Organization (WHO)
WEBSep 23, 2024 · Primary health care (PHC) addresses the majority of a person’s health needs throughout their lifetime. This includes physical, mental and social well-being and it is people-centred rather than disease-centred. PHC is a whole-of-society approach that includes health promotion, disease prevention, treatment, rehabilitation and palliative care.
Primary care toolkit - World Health Organization (WHO)
WEBPrimary care is a model of care that supports first-contact, accessible, continuous, comprehensive and coordinated person-focused care. It aims to optimize population health and reduce disparities across the population by ensuring that subgroups have equal access to services. There are five core functions of primary care:
Primary health care - World Health Organization (WHO)
WEBAug 11, 2022 · Primary health care goes beyond primary care, which is a subset of primary health care and refers to essential, first-contact care provided in a community setting such as community health posts. It ensures that people receive support closer to their everyday environments and are referred to secondary or tertiary care facilities, including ...
Primary health care - World Health Organization (WHO)
WEBNov 15, 2023 · Primary health care is an approach to health and wellbeing centred on the needs and circumstances of individuals, families and communities. It addresses comprehensive and interrelated physical, mental and social health and wellbeing.
Understanding primary health care - World Health Organization …
WEBAug 28, 2023 · 2023 marks the 45th anniversary of Alma-Ata and 5th anniversary of Astana declarations on primary health care (PHC). PHC stands out as the most inclusive, equitable, cost-effective and efficient approach to enhance people’s physical and mental health, as well as social well-being. To celebrate these historical milestones, WHO/Europe, UNICEF and the Government of Kazakhstan are co-hosting an ...
Primary health care in China - World Health Organization (WHO)
WEBPrimary health care (PHC) is an integral part of a country’s health system and, ideally, its main focus. It is the first level of contact for individuals, families and communities and enables health care to be delivered as close as possible to where people live and work. PHC is therefore the first element of the care continuum.
Primary care - World Health Organization (WHO)
WEBPrimary care is the service core of primary health care (PHC). It enables first-contact, accessible, continuous, comprehensive, and coordinated person-focused care close to where people live and work. High-quality primary care improves health outcomes, equity and cost-efficiency.
Primary health care - World Health Organization (WHO)
WEBDec 5, 2017 · Primary health care is a whole-of-society approach to health and well-being centred on the needs and preferences of individuals, families and communities. It addresses the broader determinants of health and focuses on the comprehensive and interrelated aspects of physical, mental and social health and wellbeing.
Implementing the primary health care approach: a primer
WEBMay 15, 2024 · This Primer is about the 'how' of primary health care (PHC) and brings together best practices and knowledge that countries have generated through 'natural experiments' in strengthening PHC with the best available research evidence. Despite the progress made towards PHC globally, the concept is still often misunderstood, even within the public health community.
Primary health care measurement framework and indicators: …
WEBFeb 28, 2022 · Overview . Primary health care (PHC), as outlined in the 1978 Declaration of Alma-Ata and again 40 years later in the 2018 World Health Organization (WHO) and United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) document A vision for primary health care in the 21st century: towards universal health coverage and the Sustainable Development Goals, is a whole-of-government and whole-of-society approach to ...