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Regional
Conference on Revitalizing Primary Health Care
6-8 August 2008, Jakarta, Indonesia
The Regional Conference on Revitalizing Primary Health
Care (PHC) held in Jakarta
from 6-8 August 2008 was attended by almost 200 participants from 11 member
countries, including donor institutions and partners. The meeting aimed to
take forward the PHC agenda in South-East Asia region, and to pool
recommendations on revitalizing PHC for the consideration of 61st Session
of the WHO Regional Committee for South-East Asia. More…
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Launch of
World Health Report 2008
“Primary Health Care: Now more than
ever”
23 October 2008
Dr Samlee Plianbangchang,
Regional Director, WHO, South-East Asia Regional Office would be launching
the World Health Report 2008 entitled “Primary Health Care: Now more than
ever” on 23 October’08. This World Health Report revisits the ambitious
vision of primary health care as a set of values and principles for guiding
the development of health systems. The Report represents an important
opportunity to draw on the lessons of the past, consider the challenges
that lie ahead, and identify major avenues for health systems to narrow the
intolerable gaps between aspiration and implementation.
"Rather than improving their response capacity and
anticipating new challenges, health systems seems to be drifting from one
short-term priority to another, increasingly fragmented and without a clear
sense of direction," says World Health Report 2008, “Primary Health
Care – Now More Than Ever”. With the publication of the report on 14
October in its Headquarters, WHO hopes to start a global conversation on
the effectiveness of primary health care (PHC) as a way of reorienting national health systems. More…
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