Launch Of The World Health Report 2008 Primary Health Care (PHC) "Now More Than Ever"

Main Category: Primary Care / General Practice
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Article Date: 14 Oct 2008 - 0:00 PDT

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What

On October 14th, in Almaty, Kazakhstan, the World Health Organization (WHO) will release its annual World Health Report, which this year is entitled "Primary Health Care - Now more than ever" The launch of the report will take place at a conference marking the 30th anniversary of primary health care founding document, the Alma-Ata Declaration. (Alma-Ata was renamed Almaty).

Primary health care was put forward thirty years ago as a set of values, principles and approaches aimed at raising the level of health in deprived populations. In all countries, it offered a way to improve fairness in access to health care and efficiency in the way resources were used. Primary health care embraced a view of health that went well beyond a narrow medical model by drawing upon community participation and striving for equity in access to health services and more.

With the publication of the report on 14 October, WHO hopes to start a global conversation on the effectiveness of primary health care as a way of reorienting national health systems.

World Health Organization media conference

Who

Dr Margaret Chan, Director-General of the World Health Organization
Ann M. Veneman, Executive Director of UNICEF.
Dr Anatoliy Dernovoy, Minister of Health, Republic of Kazakhstan .

When

Tuesday, 14 October 2008 at 17: 00 pm Almaty time/ 13:00 pm Geneva time /11:00 am GMT time.

Where

Almaty Room, Intercontinental Hotel, 181 Zheltoksan Street, 050013 Republic of Kazakhstan

How

Reporters are welcome to attend. For those unable to be at the press conference, WHO will provide audio and video files, and a transcript following the media briefing.

The report is available in English, the Introduction and Overview in English, French, Spanish and Russian, a short summery of the report in all languages , country examples of primary health care experiences, a news release, photos, posters and video and audio files can be viewed at http://www.who.int/whr/2008. The login is WHR08" http://www.who.int/whr/2008.

The login is WHR08 (all CAPS) and the password is whrph.

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