Elements of primary health care
The Alma Ata declaration put forward 8 essetial components of primary healthcare. They are:
- Education about prevailing health problems and how to prevent and control them
- Food supply and proper nutrition
- Adequate supply of safe water and basic sanitation
- Maternal and child health, Family planning
- Immunisation against infectious diseases
- Prevention and control of endemic diseases
- Treatment of common infections
- Essential drugs
