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Primary Healthcare Nursing Module
The Eight Essential Components of Primary Healthcare
The Declaration of Alma Ata, authored at the 1978 WHO/UNICEF conference, outlined the eight essential components of primary healthcare. They are:
- Education concerning prevailing health problems and the methods of preventing and controlling them.
- Promotion of food supply and proper nutrition.
- An adequate supply of safe water and basic sanitation.
- Maternal and child health care, including family planning.
- Immunization against major infectious diseases.
- Prevention and control of locally endemic diseases.
- Appropriate treatment of common diseases and injuries.
- Provision of essential drugs.
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