The Astana and Alma-Ata declarations shaped the characteristics of modern primary health care. How the public health system has improved and how it has not? In view of the recent COVID-19 pandemic.
Vrasidas - Alma-Ata was an important 'gathering' and set the foundations for the later Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion which, in turn, set a new direction for public health services beyond the traditional, reactive acute medical model more towards preventative social models of health. Both types of public health system have come to the fore to help address and combat Covid-19 - to varying degrees depending on approach.
Vrasidas - Alma-Ata was an important 'gathering' and set the foundations for the later Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion which, in turn, set a new direction for public health services beyond the traditional, reactive acute medical model more towards preventative social models of health. Both types of public health system have come to the fore to help address and combat Covid-19 - to varying degrees depending on approach.