Participation and empowerment in Primary Health Care: from Alma Ata to the era of globalization

With the 1978 Alma Ata declaration, community participation was brought to the fore as a key component of primary health care. This paper describes how the concepts of people’s participation and empowerment evolved throughout the last three decades and how these evolutions are linked with the global...

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Main Authors: Pierre Lefèvre, Denis Perez, Wim De Ceukelaire, Geraldine Malaise, Pol De Vos, Patrick Van der Stuyft
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Social Medicine Publication Group 2009-06-01
Series:Social Medicine
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Online Access:http://www.socialmedicine.info/index.php/socialmedicine/article/view/269