Nursing and Health Care

Primary healthcare

Primary Health Care is essential health care based on practical, scientifically sound and socially acceptable strategies and technology, made universally accessible to people and families within the community through their full participation and at a cost that the community and the country can afford to keep up at each stage of their development within the spirit of self-reliance and self-determination. Primary Health Care is therefore understood as an approach to health care that promotes the attainment by all people of a level of health that will permit them to live socially and economically productive lives. Primary healthcare is health care that is essential, evidence-based, ethical, accessible, equitable, affordable, and accountable to the community.