Sound Primary Health Care demands a Strong Role for Family Medicine
Keywords:
Primary Health Care, Farnily Medieine, Education, Medical, Graduate, Teams, Family Physicians, Philosophy
Abstract
The declaration of Alma Ata identifies primary health care (PHC) as the key to attaining "health for all by the year 2000."'It describes PHC as essential health care made universally accessible to individuals and families in the community, rendered by means acceptable to the community, through their full participation and at an affordable cost.
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