Achieving Health for All : Primary Health Care in Action /
"This edited volume examines countries around the world that took seriously the Alma-Ata Declaration of 1978 and expanded their primary health care system for access by all citizens. This book makes a case for promoting population-level health through universal primary care"--
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
2020.
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Table of Contents:
- Why does primary health care matter in the 21st century? / David Bishai
- Primary health care : history, trends, controversies and challenges / Henry B. Perry
- Identifying countries with exceptionally rapid gains in life expectancy : a quantitative approach / Carolina Cardona and David Bishai
- Strategies to improve comprehensive primary health care performance in a district / Claudia Pereira, David Bishai, and Melissa Sherry
- Why well-supported health systems are necessary for vertical programs to succeed : lessons from polio eradication / Svea Closser
- Continuity between comprehensive primary health care and sustainable development goals / Melissa Sherry and David Bishai
- Four principles of community-based primary health care : support, appreciate, learn/listen, transfer (SALT) FM - 4 / Marlou de Rouw, Alice Kuan, Philip Forth, Rituu B. Nanda, and Luc Barriere Constantin
- Bangladesh's health improvement strategy as an example of the Alma-Ata Declaration in action / Taufique Joarder and Ferdous Arfina Osman
- Ethiopia : expansion of primary health care through the health extension program / Zufan Abera Damtew, Meike Schleiff, Kebede Worku, Chala Tesfaye, Seblewengel Lemma, Onaopemipo Abiodun, Mignote Solomon Haile, Dennis Carlson, Ahmed Moen, and Henry B. Perry
- Health improvement through primary health care approach : case of Nepal / Kedar Prasad Baral, Nadia Diamond-Smith, and Rita Thapa
- Four decades of community-based primary health care development in Ghana / James F. Phillips, Fred N. Binka, John Koku Awoonor Williams, and Ayaga A. Bawah
- Sri Lanka's health improvements as an example of the implementation of the Alma-Ata Declaration / Vinya Ariyaratne
- How Vietnam's Doi Moi reforms achieved rapid gains in health with comprehensive primary health care / Nguyen Thanh Huong and Hoang Khanh Chi
- Cuba's progress on PHC since the Alma-Ata Conference / Sasmira Matta, David Bishai, and Pedro Mas Bemejo
- Health for All in the twenty-first century / Meike Schleiff and David Bishai.