Let me be given an opportunity to express my views on the subject of Health for All through Primary Health Care (HFA though PHC) by 2000 AD. The Alma-Ata declaration in 1978 revolutionized the world’s interpretation of health, Health for All through Primary Health Care (HFA though PHC) by 2000 AD. Primary healthcare is a guiding tool for the establishment of a sustainable healthcare system that acts to eliminate not only the medical causes but also social, economic and political causes of ill health. To reduce health inequities between the developed and developing countries as well as within the country (e.g. urban and rural) primary healthcare addresses a range of approaches for prioritizing the health needs and fundamental determinants of health. It provides the sense of ownership to the community people regarding their health; health solutions are being innovated, implemented and sustained by them. Surprisingly, two of the most inspiring and least understood topics of global health are “Health for all” and “Primary Healthcare”. It is integral to achieving health for all.

Revitalizing Alma-Ata and learning from three decades of experience is crucial to reach the ambitious goal of health for all in all countries, both rich and poor; also for today and tomorrow. A great contributor to this groundbreaking document of HFA though PHC; Carl Taylor has rightly said," There is no universal solution, but there is a universal process to find an appropriate local solution"? We believe that revitalization of the tenets of the Alma-Ata Declaration is necessary to meet the MDGs in 2015 and beyond. Like the first primary health-care revolution, this will take champions—as Mahler said at the 2008 World Health Assembly “unless we all become partisans in renewed local and global battles for...equity...we shall indeed betray the future of our children and grandchildren.”

We need to analyse as to how primary healthcare has been implemented in different communities with diverse challenges and obstacles and how the principles of primary healthcare can guide health policies and implementation of those policies. It is still relevant in the present scenario. It is a renaissance in primary health care.

Thank you very much.
With warm personal regards,

Nikhil

Dr. Surender N. Gupta,

MBBS; PGDHHM;PGDMCH;

PGDCHFWM;FAIMS;;MA (Phil);

FIMS;MAE (Epidemiology); OCCRTI
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