The document discusses primary health care, its origins, principles, and implementation. It defines primary health care as the first level of contact with individuals and families through participation at an affordable cost. The key principles of primary health care are equitable distribution, community participation, intersectoral coordination, appropriate technology, and prevention. Primary health care aims to provide universally accessible essential health services and promote health through these principles.

1. Department of public health dentistry

2. Presented by:
Shikha Khare
IV year
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3. INDEX
 Health care
 Levels of health care
 Origin of concept
 Primary health care
 Elements of primary health care
 Pillars of primary health care
 Principles of primary health care
 Equitable distribution
 Community participation
 Intersectoral coordination
 Appropriate technology
 Focus on prevention
 Conclusion

4. HEALTH CARE
Health care is the diagnosis,
treatment, and prevention
of disease, illness, injury,
and other physical and
mental impairments in
humans.

5. LEVELS OF HEALTH CARE
PRIMARY HEALTH CARE
 The “first” level of contact between the individual and
the health system.
 The closest to the people.
 Provided by the primary health centers.

6. SECONDARY HEALTH CARE
 More complex problems are dealt with.
 Comprises curative services.
 Provided by the district hospitals.
 The 1st referral level.
TERTIARY HEALTH CARE
 Offers super-specialist care.
 Provided by regional/central level institution.
 Provide training programs.

7. ORIGIN OF CONCEPT
• Primary health care (PHC) became a
core policy following a joint WHO-
UNICEF conference in Alma-Ata on
12 September 1978.
• The Alma-Ata declaration called for
acceptence of the WHO goal of
‘health-for-all by the year 2000’.
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8. The commitment to global improvements in
health, was renewed in 1998 by the world health
assembly. This led to the ‘health-for-all for the
twenty-first century’ policy and program, within
which the commitment to PHC development is
restated.

9. THE SERVICES PROVIDED ARE:
 Simple and efficient with regard to cost,
techniques and organization.
 Readily accessible to those concerned and
contributed to improving the living condition of
individuals, families and community as a whole.
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10. PRIMARY HEALTH CARE
Primary health care is
“Essential health care based on practical,
scientifically sound and socially acceptable
methods and technology made universally
accessible to individuals and families in the
community through their full participation and at
a cost that community and the country can afford
to maintain at every stage of their development in
the spirit of self-reliance and self-determination”.
(Alma-Ata, 1978)
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12. ELEMENTS OF
PRIMARY HEATH CARE
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14. FOUR CORNERSTONES/PILLARS
OF PRIMARY HEALTH CARE
 ACTIVE COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION
 INTRA AND INTER SECTORAL LINKAGES
 USE OF APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGY
 SUPPORT MECHANISM MADE AVAILABLE
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15. PRINCIPLES OF PRIMARY
HEALTH CARE
 EQUITABLE DISTRIBUTION
 COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION
 INTERSECTORAL COORDINATION
 APROPRIATE TECHNOLOGY
 FOCUS ON PREVENTION
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16. EQUITABLE DISTRIBUTION
Healthcare services must be equally shared by all
the people of the community irrespective of their
race, creed or economic status. This concept helps
to shift the centre of gravity of healthcare from the
cities to the rural areas where the most needy and
vulnerable groups of the population live.
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17. COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION
In order to make the
fullest use of local,
national and other
available resources
Community
participation was
considered sustainable
due to its grass roots
nature and emphasis
on self-sufficiency.
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18. INTERSECTORAL COORDINATION
 Agriculture
 Education
 Communication
 Housing
 Public works
 Industry
 Community organizations.
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19. APROPRIATE TECHNOLOGY
 Scientifically sound
 Effective
 Acceptable
 In keeping with local
culture
 Capable of further
development
 Simple to design, use and
understand
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20. FOCUS ON PREVENTION
 Promote health and healthy
lifestyles with emphasis on
prevention.
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21.  Presently there are 23,109 PHCs in India.
 1156 of them are in Madhya Pradesh
 Out of which 10 comes under Bhopal district.

22. CONCLUSION
 Health care is a basic human right.
 Government and non-government agencies
should examine policies in relation to education,
clinical practice, research and administration.
 Useful for the entire population and not just a
priviledged few.

23. BIBLIOGRAPHY
 www.cna-aiic.com
 Essentials of preventive and community dentistry
by Soben Peter, fourth edition
 www.who.int
 www.nigerianstalk.org