[EQ] World Health Report calls for return to primary health care approach

World Health Report calls for return to primary health care approach

World Health Organization – WHO -  2008

 

Available online as PDF [148p.] at: http://www.who.int/whr/2008/whr08_en.pdf

 

14 October 2008 -- There are striking inequities within and between countries in health outcomes, in access to care, and in what people have to pay for care, says the World Health Report 2008 launched today.

 

To steer health systems towards better performance and greater equity, the report calls for a revival of the primary health care approach launched 30 years ago.

 

“….The report critically assesses the way that health care is organized, financed, and delivered in rich and poor countries around the world and documents a number of failures and shortcomings that have left the health status of different populations, both within and between countries, dangerously out of balance….”

 

:: Primary health in action: examples from countries

PRESS RELEASE

- World Health Report calls for return to primary health care approach

- English [pdf 42kb]
- French [pdf 55kb]
- Russian [pdf 203kb]
- Spanish [pdf 48kb]

 

SUMMARY OF THE REPORT

- Primary Health Care - Now More Than Ever

- Arabic [pdf 63kb]
- Chinese [pdf 103kb]
- English [pdf 37kb]
- French [pdf 65kb]
- Russian [pdf 106kb]
- Spanish [pdf 17kb]

Report by chapters

-          Contents [pdf 129kb]
- Introduction and overview
- Chapter 1: The challenges of a changing world
- Chapter 2: Advancing and sustaining universal coverage
- Chapter 3: Primary care: putting people first
- Chapter 4: Public policies for the public’s health
- Chapter 5: Leadership and effective government
- Chapter 6: The way forward
- Index [pdf 124kb]

 

 

 

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