Topic > Primary Health Care: A New Approach to Health Care

Primary health care is the care adopted by nurses to emphasize health care for people themselves and their needs to shape people's lives. Primary healthcare includes all areas that play a role in health, such as access to healthcare services, environment and lifestyle. Hospitals and health centers are the only services that provide healthcare to people in cities or communities. According to (Anne McMurray, 2012), “Primary health care encompasses a broad spectrum of activities aimed at promoting health and well-being. These may include primary care and include follow-up activities to promote community health and protect community members from harm and/or prevent illness or injury. Importantly, the ultimate goal of primary healthcare is to build community capacity for sustainable health and well-being. Community capacity building is based on the core values ​​of equity, community participation and self-determination, which embody human rights and shared social expectations.” To begin with, primary health care represented a new approach to health care, as emerged from the international conference held in Alma Ata in 1978, organized by the World Health Organization and UNICEF. Primary healthcare was based on mutuality, social justice and equality. As a strategy, primary healthcare focuses on individual and community strengths and opportunities for change, increases community participation, includes all relevant sectors, and uses only accessible, affordable and appropriate healthcare technologies. E. Hitchcock, 2003) it is stated that “Primary healthcare in international healthcare is associated with the global conference held in Alma Ata in...... half of the document...... all healthcare of basis began to guide us to work towards equitable social circumstances to provide adequate care to people's children, equal access to healthcare, and community empowerment through public participation in all aspects of life. Primary health care addresses major community health problems by providing promotive, curative, preventive and rehabilitative services. The goal of primary healthcare is to build community capacity to enable the sustainable health and well-being of all people around the world. NO. of words: 2159ReferencesAnne McMurray, J.C. (2012). Community health and well-being: Primary health care in practice (4th ed.). (L. Norrie, ed.) Australia: Libby Houston.Janice E. Hitchcock, PE (2003). Community Health Nursing - Caring In Action (2nd ed.). (CL Experts, ed.) New York: William Brottmiller.