Eight Elements of Primary Health Care (Alma Ata

Declaration)

Major Aspects of Health Care Elements of Health Care

Promotive 1. Education concerning health

problems and the methods of
preventing them
2. Promotion of food supply and
proper nutrition
3. Adequate supply of safe
water
and basic sanitation
Preventive 4. Maternal and child
health care,
including family planning
5. Immunization against
major
infectious diseases
6. Prevention and
control of locally
endemic diseases
Curative 7. Appropriate treatment
of common
diseases and injuries
8. Provision of essential
drugs
• Primary Health Care in the Philippines:
Four Models of People's Participation
1. Hospital/Clinic-based, where people are merely
informed of health activities
2. Community-oriented, where packaged programs
and projects are confirmed through
consultations
3. Community-based, where there is a joint-effort in
decision making among health workers and
the community through partnerships, and
4. Community-managed, where conceptualization,
implementation, management and major
decision making are all lodged in the
community itself.