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What is the difference between comprehensive and selective primary health care? Evidence from a five-year longitudinal realist case study in South Australia
(BMJ Publishing Group, 2017)
BACKGROUND Since the WHO’s Alma Ata Declaration on
Primary Health Care (PHC) there has been debate about
the advisability of adopting comprehensive or selective
PHC. Proponents of the latter argue that a more ...
Is the Alma Ata vision of comprehensive primary health care viable? Findings from an international project
(Co-Action Publishing, 2014)
BACKGROUND: The 4-year (2007 2011) Revitalizing Health for All international research program (http://www.
globalhealthequity.ca/projects/proj_revitalizing/index.shtml) supported 20 research teams located in 15 ...
Coverage of child health services in rural districts of Ethiopia with the health services extension program
(Academic Journals, 2015)
Improving access to health care services has been advocated widely since the Declaration of Alma-Ata. Despite the efforts to realize this in Ethiopia, it is only in the year 2003 that the intention to take the package of ...
Implementation, effectiveness and political context of comprehensive primary health care: preliminary findings of a global literature review
(CSIRO, 2008)
Primary health care (PHC) is again high on the
international agenda. It was the theme of The
World Health Report in 2008, thirty years after the
Alma-Ata Declaration, and has been the topic of a
series of significant ...
Measuring progess on diet-related NCD's: the need to address the causes of the causes
(Elsevier, 2013)
WHO has developed nine voluntary global monitoring targets and 25 indicators to assess progress in the implementation of national strategies to achieve the global political commitment to reduce the probability of dying ...
Assessing the health impact of transnational corporations: its importance and a framework
(BioMed Central, 2016)
BACKGROUND: The adverse health and equity impacts of transnational corporations' (TNCs) practices have become
central public health concerns as TNCs increasingly dominate global trade and investment and shape national
economies. ...
Urbanization and international trade and investment policies as determinants of noncommunicable diseases in Sub-Saharan Africa
(Elsevier, 2013)
There are three dominant globalization pathways affecting noncommunicable diseases in
Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA): urbanization, trade liberalization, and investment liberalization.
Urbanization carries potential health ...
Health promotion in Australian multi-disciplinary primary health care services: case studies from South Australia and the Nothern Territory
(Oxford University Press, 2013)
This paper reports on the health promotion and disease
prevention conducted at Australian multi-disciplinary
primary health care (PHC) services and considers the ways
in which the organizational environment affects the ...