Title: Primary care: rhetoric and reality

POPLINE Document Number: 266690

Author(s):

Mosley WH

Source citation:

Populi, 1983;10(3):41-53.

Abstract:

The strategy adopted at the Alma-Ata Conference of 1978 that development of primary health care is the best way to reduce infant and child mortality in developing countries is reviewed. It is noted that because of different conditions encountered among developing countries, this strategy has produced an uneven record. A model is proposed that could be used both to measure the effectiveness of primary health care programs and to improve them as well. (ANNOTATION)

Keywords:

Developing Countries
Infant Mortality
Child Mortality
Mortality
Primary Health Care
Evaluation
Health Services
Models, Theoretical
Child Health Services
Population Dynamics
Demographic Factors
Population
Delivery of Health Care
Health
Research Methodology
Maternal-Child Health Services