Achieving Health for All : Primary Health Care in Action / edited by David Bishai, PhD, MD, MPH; Meike Schleiff, MSPH, DrPH.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Book collections on Project MUSEPublisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020Manufacturer: Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2020Copyright date: ©2020Description: 1 online resource (368 pages)Content type:
  • text
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  • computer
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  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781421441115
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 362.1 23
LOC classification:
  • RA425
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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.
Summary: "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"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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"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"-- Provided by publisher.

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