HLTH1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Universal Health Care, Rural Health, Almaty
Document Summary
"a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity"- who in 1948. Targeted programs with some achievements especially in maternal and infant mortality. Some goals were met, but certainly not all. Stronger health systems based on comprehensive primary healthcare. Can see the link between social determinants and health education, equality, sustainable cities, all feed into health. Even though only 1 specifically mentions health, but all feed into it. Based on primary health care (declaration of alma ata 1978) Had programmes that dealt with tb or malaria - concept now is to improve the quality and infrastructure for health across the board, so to address issues of all these diseases. Targeted programs often miss the mark - specific control like bird flu for example didn"t address the issue of infection control as a whole - need stuff like more taps and soap, not gowns and mask.
