The Astana Declaration and future African primary health care
Date
2018-11
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Abstract
At the recent Global Symposium on Health Systems, one of the participants commented that
there are three trains currently running the global health agenda – the sustainable development
goals, universal health coverage and primary health care. As I write this editorial, the intergovernmental meeting in Astana will be meeting to re-commit the world to primary health care
as the essential and fundamental basis of cost-effective and equitable health systems. This
meeting comes 40 years after the landmark Declaration of Alma Ata which rallied the world
around the call of ‘health for all’ and primary health care. However, 40 years on and despite the
2008 World Health Report also declaring primary health care is needed ‘now more than ever’, the world has yet to fully realise the vision and potential of primary health care.
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CITATION: Mash, R. 2018. The Astana Declaration and future African primary health care. African Journal of Primary Health Care & Family Medicine, 10(1):a1983, doi:10.4102/phcfm.v10i1.1983.
The original publication is available at https://phcfm.org/index.php/phcfm
The original publication is available at https://phcfm.org/index.php/phcfm
Keywords
Primary health care, Primary care, Community primary care, Astana Declaration
Citation
Mash, R. 2018. The Astana Declaration and future African primary health care. African Journal of Primary Health Care & Family Medicine, 10(1):a1983, doi:10.4102/phcfm.v10i1.1983.