Our commitment to primary healthcare

Primary healthcare represents the first level of contact of individuals, the family and community with the national health system, bringing healthcare as close as possible to where people live and work. — TNS

The 1978 Alma-Ata declaration announced global agreement that health is a “fundamental human right” and called for “urgent and effective national and international action to develop and implement primary healthcare throughout the world”.

Primary healthcare (PHC) was defined in the declaration as “essential healthcare 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 the community and country can afford...