Good primary care vital for health

WHO theme for World Health Day 2018

THE importance of primary care was reinforced by the Declaration of Astana at the Global Conference on Primary Healthcare (PHC) held last month at Astana, Kazakhstan.

This conference was a follow-up to the Alma Atta Conference (also in Kazakhstan) in 1978 where, for the first time ever, an ambitious worldwide target of “health for all by the year two thousand” was set and the consensus then was that it was best achieved through primary care. Malaysia took part in both conferences.