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Have health sector reforms strengthened PHC in developing countries?

Part of: PHCRD & Policy Collection

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 October 2006

Andrew Green
Andrew Green
Affiliation:
Nuffield Institute for Health, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
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Abstract

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The policy thrust in the health system in many developing countries over the last decade has been on reforming structures. This paper examines such reforms in the light of the principles of primary health care that were adopted at the Alma Ata conference in 1978 and which are re-emerging as underpinning the current WHO global policies. It concludes that many of the reforms at best did not strengthen PHC and at worst ran counter to it.

Keywords

equityhealth sector reformmultisectoralismparticipationprimary health careprioritization
Type
Original Article
Information
Primary Health Care Research & Development , Volume 5 , Issue 4 , October 2004 , pp. 289 - 295
Copyright
2004 Arnold