Progress, Challenges, and Policies to Promote Primary Health Care — Harvard Health Policy Review

In a remarkable show of solidarity, health leaders from 194 nations recently gathered in Kazakhstan to renew their commitments to primary health care (PHC)¹.Forty years earlier, in 1978, a similar group had gathered in Alma Ata to define PHC as a cornerstone of effective health care systems ². Health leaders agreed that promoting health was a public good.