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Am J Public Health. 2004 Nov;94(11):1864-74. doi: 10.2105/ajph.94.11.1864.

The origins of primary health care and selective primary health care.

American journal of public health

Marcos Cueto

Affiliations

  1. Department of Sociomedical Sciences, School of Public Health, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Roca Bologna 633, Lima 18, Peru. [email protected]

PMID: 15514221 PMCID: PMC1448553 DOI: 10.2105/ajph.94.11.1864

Abstract

I present a historical study of the role played by the World Health Organization and UNICEF in the emergence and diffusion of the concept of primary health care during the late 1970s and early 1980s. I have analyzed these organizations' political context, their leaders, the methodologies and technologies associated with the primary health care perspective, and the debates on the meaning of primary health care. These debates led to the development of an alternative, more restricted approach, known as selective primary health care. My study examined library and archival sources; I cite examples from Latin America.

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