1. Primary Healthcare
Is seen as the first point of contact within an organised health care system

2. Primary Healthcare
According to WHO, the basic principles and values of primary healthcare as recognised during the Alma Ata conference include:
Essential healthcare based on practical scientifically sound and socially acceptable methods and technologies
Universal access to and coverage of health services based on health needs
Commitment, participation and individual and community self-reliance
Intersectoral action for health
Cost effectiveness and appropriate technology, as the available resources permit.

3. Focus of Primary Healthcare
Is to prevent illness and promote good health, and to provide affordable curative care for those in need
It involves the individual, family and community
Many people in developing countries live in rural areas where there is little access to healthcare services
Primary healthcare helps to overcome this through training local health workers, who are able to treat common injuries and illnesses and educate the community about the prevention of disease

4. Alma Ata Declaration
Safe water and sanitation: Providing adequate access to clean drinking water and basic sanitation systems to all people in order to reduce the spread of illness
Food and nutrition: Ensuring that everyone has access to an adequate and nutritious food supply at an affordable cost, in order to prevent malnutrition
Maternal and child health: Providing family in planning education and monitoring of child health and development, as well as trained birth attendants in order to reduce maternal and infant mortality

5. Immunisation: Providing immunisations to all children to prevent the spread of infectious disease
Curative care: Providing healthcare to treat common illness and injury
Essential drugs: Providing access to essential drugs to all people
Education: Providing education about the causes of ill health and the factors that promote good health in order to prevent or control disease and illness
Disease control: the prevention and control of locally endemic diseases.

6. WHO global review of primary healthcare
Be culturally sensitive
Meet the needs of the people
Involve the whole community
Promote self reliance
Be sustainable
Rely on local healthcare

7. Features of the primary healthcare strategy
Always hurdles to overcome
Lack of funding, lack of acceptance and difficulties training locals maybe some of the issues that arise
Primary healthcare strategy is cost effective in that it trains local healthcare workers, rather than doctors
It takes on the needs of the community into account, with the community involved in implementing the strategy
This increases acceptance and therefore more likely to be successful
It focuses on preventative healthcare, which helps the community to become self sufficient

8. Sustainable Development
Sustainable development means meeting the needs of people today without reducing the options available to generations in the future, promoting growth while protecting the environment.

9. AusAID Sustainable Development
AusAID defines sustainable development as “the condition of benefits after major assistance from a donor has been completed”

10. Sustainable Developement
Successful sustainable development involves the use of renewable resources and local community participation
According to the World Bank there are three elements of sustainable development: Social, Economic, Environmental

11. Social Empower people to take control of their lives
Respect the values and knowledge of people
Promote equity by including all people in decisions and activities that will impact on their community

12. Economic
Ensure employment opportunities and the payment of a fair wage for goods and services
Promote economic growth at a national and international level
Invest in education and improve the skills and knowledge of the workforce
Have access to appropriate technology, transport, communication systems, tools and energy

13. Environmental Protect natural resources
Reduce energy usage and promote greater efficiency in the use of energy
Reduce pollution
Encourage industry and agriculture to use natural resources responsibly

14. Activities
14.3 Pg 360
14.4 Pg
A primary health care plan in Malaysia
Outreach and improved services for Indigenous people in remote Australia (Journey through HHD pg’s 308 – 311)
Handout photocopy ( Journey through HHD )