Revitalizing Health for All: Case Studies of the Struggle for Comprehensive Primay Health Care - Softcover

International Development Research Centre

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1487521626 ISBN 13: 9781487521622

Publisher: University of Toronto Press, 2017

Synopsis

The concept of Comprehensive Primary Health Care focuses on health system efforts to improve equity in health care access, community empowerment, participation of marginalized groups, and actions on the social determinants of health. Despite its existence since the late 1970s very few studies have been able to highlight the outcomes of this concept, until now.

Revitalizing Health for All examines thirteen cases of efforts to implement CPHC reforms from around the globe including Australia, Brazil, Democratic Republic of Congo, Iran, South Africa, and more. The findings presented in this volume originate from an international action-research set of studies that utilized triads of senior and junior researchers and knowledge users from each country's public health system. Primary health care reform is an important policy discourse both at the national level in these countries and in the global conversations, and this volume reveals the similarities among CPHC projects in diverse national contexts. These similarities provide a rich evidence base from which future CPHC reform initiatives can draw, regardless of their country.

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About the Author

Ronald Labonte is a professor in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Ottawa and the Faculty of Health Sciences at Flinders University. David Sanders is a professor emeritus and founding director of the School of Public Health at the University of the Western Cape.

Corinne Packer is a senior researcher in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Ottawa.

Nikki Schaay is a senior researcher in the School of Public Health at the University of the Western Cape.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1487521626
• ISBN 13: 9781487521622
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 376
• Editor: Ronald Labonte, David Sanders, Corinne Packer, Nikki Schaay