PHA-Exchange> Global Meeting on Future Strategic Directions for Primary He alth Care

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From: "Ruggiero, Mrs. Ana Lucia (WDC)" <ruglucia at PAHO.ORG>
EQUIDAD at LISTSERV.PAHO.ORG

Global Meeting on Future Strategic Directions for Primary Health Care
Madrid, Spain  27- 29 October 2003

World Health Organization (WHO) and the Ministry of Health and Consumer
Affairs of the Government of Spain

Website: 
<http://www.who.int/chronic_conditions/primary_health_care/en/>

Full Report
Primary Health Care: A Framework for Future Strategic Directions:
PDF file [44p.] at:
<http://www.who.int/chronic_conditions/primary_health_care/en/phc_repor
t_oct
03.pdf>
http://www.who.int/chronic_conditions/primary_health_care/en/phc_report
_oct0
3.pdf



Objectives

* To look back, review and celebrate the 25th Anniversary of the
Declaration
of Alma-Ata;

* To identify future strategic directions for primary health care;

* To recommend implementation modalities that will strengthen primary
health
care;

* To clarify how the future strategic directions for primary health
care
will contribute
  to the achievement of the United Nations Millennium Development
Goals;

* To identify ways in which countries can enhance the capacity and
performance of their
  primary health care systems;

* To suggest newer ways in which the World Health Organization can
support
countries
  in implementing primary health care.