The Principles of Primary Health Care

  • Fair and equitable and timely accessibility to health care providers of choice.
  • Public participation in community development.
  • Inter-sectoral and transdisciplinary collabortion with equality of all health care team members.
  • Health Protection, Health Promotion and Illness and Injury Prevention.
  • Approriate and affordable Technology, inclusive of information technology

The roots of these principles can be traced back to the World Health Organization Alma Ata Declaration in 1978, see WHO documents