词条 | Primary healthcare |
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This ideal model of healthcare was adopted in the declaration of the International Conference on Primary Health Care held in Alma Ata, Kazakhstan in 1978 (known as the "Alma Ata Declaration"), and became a core concept of the World Health Organization's goal of Health for all.[5] The Alma-Ata Conference mobilized a "Primary Health Care movement" of professionals and institutions, governments and civil society organizations, researchers and grassroots organizations that undertook to tackle the "politically, socially and economically unacceptable" health inequalities in all countries. There were many factors that inspired PHC; a prominent example is the Barefoot Doctors of China.[4][6][7] Goals and principlesThe ultimate goal of primary healthcare is the attainment of better health services for all. It is for this reason that the World Health Organization (WHO), has identified five key elements to achieving this goal:[8]
Behind these elements lies a series of basic principles identified in the Alma Ata Declaration that should be formulated in national policies in order to launch and sustain PHC as part of a comprehensive health system and in coordination with other sectors:[1]
In sum, PHC recognizes that healthcare is not a short-lived intervention, but an ongoing process of improving people's lives and alleviating the underlying socioeconomic conditions that contribute to poor health. The principles link health, development, and advocating political interventions rather than passive acceptance of economic conditions.[9] ApproachesThe primary health care approach has seen significant gains in health where applied even when adverse economic and political conditions prevail.[10] Although the declaration made at the Alma-Ata conference deemed to be convincing and plausible in specifying goals to PHC and achieving more effective strategies, it generated numerous criticisms and reactions worldwide. Many argued the declaration did not have clear targets, was too broad, and was not attainable because of the costs and aid needed. As a result, PHC approaches have evolved in different contexts to account for disparities in resources and local priority health problems; this is alternatively called the Selective Primary Health Care (SPHC) approach. Selective PHCAfter the year 1978 Alma Ata Conference, the Rockefeller Foundation held a conference in 1979 at its Bellagio conference center in Italy to address several concerns. Here, the idea of Selective Primary Health Care was introduced as a strategy to complement comprehensive PHC. It was based on a paper by Julia Walsh and Kenneth S. Warren entitled “Selective Primary Health Care, an Interim Strategy for Disease Control in Developing Countries”.[11] This new framework advocated a more economically feasible approach to PHC by only targeting specific areas of health, and choosing the most effective treatment plan in terms of cost and effectiveness. One of the foremost examples of SPHC is "GOBI" (growth monitoring, oral rehydration, breastfeeding, and immunization),[9] focusing on combating the main diseases in developing nations. GOBI and GOBI-FFFGOBI is a strategy consisting of (and an acronym for) four low-cost, high impact, knowledge mediated measures introduced as key to halving child mortality by James P. Grant at UNICEF in 1983. The measure are:
Three additional measure were introduced to the strategy later (though food supplementation had been used by UNICEF since it#'s inception in 1946), leading to the acronym GOBI-FFF.
These strategies focus on severe population health problems in certain developing countries, where a few diseases are responsible for high rates of infant and child mortality. Health care planning is used to see which diseases require most attention and, subsequently, which intervention can be most effectively applied as part of primary care in a least-cost method. The targets and effects of selective PHC are specific and measurable.{{Vague|date=January 2019}} The approach aims to prevent most health and nutrition problems before they begin:[12][13] PHC and population agingGiven global demographic trends, with the numbers of people age 60 and over expected to double by 2025, PHC approaches have taken into account the need for countries to address the consequences of population ageing. In particular, in the future the majority of older people will be living in developing countries that are often the least prepared to confront the challenges of rapidly ageing societies, including high risk of having at least one chronic non-communicable disease, such as diabetes and osteoporosis.[14] According to WHO, dealing with this increasing burden requires health promotion and disease prevention intervention at the community level as well as disease management strategies within health care systems. PHC and mental healthSome jurisdictions apply PHC principles in planning and managing their healthcare services for the detection, diagnosis and treatment of common mental health conditions at local clinics, and organizing the referral of more complicated mental health problems to more appropriate levels of mental health care.[15] The Ministerial Conference, which took place in Alma Ata, made the decision that measures should be taken to support mental health in regard to primary health care. However, there was no such documentation of this event in the Alma Ata Declaration. These discrepancies caused an inability for proper funding and although was worthy of being a part of the declaration, changing it would call for another conference. Individuals with severe mental health disorders are found to live much shorter lives than those without, anywhere from ten to twenty-five-year reduction in life expectancy when compared to those without [16]. Cardiovascular diseases in particular are one of the leading deaths with individuals already suffering from severe mental health disorders. General health services such as PHC is one approach to integrating an improved access to such health services that could help treat already existing mental health disorders as well as prevent other disorders that could arise simultaneously as the pre-existing condition. Background and controversiesBarefoot DoctorsThe "Barefoot Doctors" of China were an important inspiration for PHC because they illustrated the effectiveness of having a healthcare professional at the community level with community ties. Barefoot Doctors were a diverse array of village health workers who lived in rural areas and received basic healthcare training. They stressed rural rather than urban healthcare, and preventive rather than curative services. They also provided a combination of western and traditional medicines. The Barefoot Doctors had close community ties, were relatively low-cost, and perhaps most importantly they encouraged self-reliance through advocating prevention and hygiene practices.[9] The program experienced a massive expansion of rural medical services in China, with the number of Barefoot Doctors increasing dramatically between the early 1960s and the Cultural Revolution (1964-1976). CriticismsAlthough many countries were keen on the idea of primary healthcare after the Alma Ata conference, the Declaration itself was criticized for being too “idealistic” and “having an unrealistic time table”.[9] More specific approaches to prevent and control diseases - based on evidence of prevalence, morbidity, mortality and feasibility of control (cost-effectiveness) - were subsequently proposed. The best known model was the Selective PHC approach (described above). Selective PHC favoured short-term goals and targeted health investment, but it did not address the social causes of disease. As such, the SPHC approach has been criticized as not following Alma Ata's core principle of everyone's entitlement to healthcare and health system development.[9] In Africa, the PHC system has been extended into isolated rural areas through construction of health posts and centers that offer basic maternal-child health, immunization, nutrition, first aid, and referral services.[17] Implementation of PHC is said to be affected after the introduction of structural adjustment programs by the World Bank.[17] See also{{col-begin}}{{col-2}}
References1. ^1 World Health Organization. Declaration of Alma-Ata. Adopted at the International Conference on Primary Health Care, Alma-Ata, USSR, 6–12 September 1978. 2. ^Starfield, Barbara. "Politics, primary healthcare and health." J Epidemiol Community Health 2011;65:653–655 {{doi|10.1136/jech.2009.102780}} 3. ^Public Health Agency of Canada. About Primary Health Care. Accessed 12 July 2011. 4. ^White F. Primary health care and public health: foundations of universal health systems. Med Princ Pract 2015 {{doi|10.1159/000370197}} 5. ^{{cite web|last=Secretariat|first=WHO|title=International Conference on Primary Health Care, Alma-Ata: twenty-fifth anniversary|url=http://apps.who.int/gb/archive/pdf_files/WHA56/ea5627.pdf|work=Report by the Secretariat|publisher=WHO|accessdate=28 March 2011}} 6. ^{{cite news|url=http://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/86/10/08-031008/en/|title=Consensus during the Cold War: back to Alma-Ata|publisher=World Health Organization|author=Bulletin of the World Health Organization|date=October 2008}} 7. ^{{cite news|url=http://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/86/12/08-021208/en/index.html|title=China’s village doctors take great strides|publisher=World Health Organization|author=Bulletin of the World Health Organization|date=December 2008}} 8. ^{{cite web|title=Health topics: Primary health care|url=http://www.who.int/topics/primary_health_care/en/|publisher=World Health Organisation |accessdate=28 March 2011}} 9. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 {{cite journal|last=Marcos|first=Cueto|title=The ORIGINS of Primary Health Care and SELECTIVE Primary Health Care.|journal=Am J Public Health|year=2004|volume=94|series=22|pages=1864–1874|doi=10.2105/ajph.94.11.1864|pmc=1448553}} 10. ^{{cite book |title=Screening in Primary Health Care: Setting Priorities With Limited Resources |last=Braveman |first=Paula |author2=E. Tarimo |year=1994 |publisher=World Health Organization |isbn=9241544732 |page=14 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5SJuF9Fk1DMC |accessdate=4 November 2012 }} 11. ^Walsh, Julia A., and Kenneth S. Warren. 1980. Selective primary health care:An interim strategy for disease control in developing countries. Social Science & Medicine. Part C: Medical Economics 14 (2):145-163 12. ^Rehydration Project. UNICEF's GOBI-FFF Programs. Accessed 16 June 2011. 13. ^World Health Organization. World Health Report 2005, Chapter 5: Choosing Interventions to Reduce Specific Risks. Geneva, WHO Press. 14. ^World Health Organization. Older people and Primary Health Care (PHC). Accessed 16 June 2011. 15. ^Department of Health, Provincial Government of the Western Cape. Mental Health Primary Health Care (PHC) Services. Accessed 16 June 2011. 16. ^{{Cite web|url=https://www.who.int/mental_health/evidence/excess_mortality_meeting_report.pdf?ua=1|title=Meeting Report on Excess Mortality in Persons with Severe Mental Disorders|last=|first=|date=18-20 November 2015|website=World Health Organization|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=}} 17. ^1 Pfeiffer, J. 2003. International NGOs and primary health care in Mozambique: the need for a new model of collaboration. Social Science & Medicine 56(4):725-738. Further reading
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