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- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Copyright
- © Oxford University Press
- ISSN
- 0263-2136
- eISSN
- 1460-2229
- DOI
- 10.1093/fampra/1.2.67
- Publisher site
- See Article on Publisher Site
Abstract
The World Health Organization objective of part of a comprehensive health care system is 'Health for all' by the year AD 2000 has come now accepted. It is for this reason that priority under attack from many quarters as being must be given to directing the main effort of unrealistic and impractical to achieve. This continuing education towards primary care. The scepticism has been created by a failure to define requirements for each country will vary, but in the sense in which 'Health' is used. If it means general countries are facing the problems of freedom from disease for all people, then that is competing demands in the development of a an obvious impossibility. If it is an ideal state or health service and the implications of a funda- a philosophical concept of 'Health', then it is a mental change in the relationship between right and proper objective. Perhaps the target we primary and secondary levels of medical care. should be setting is not 'Health' but quality of In achieving 'Health for all' each community life. That quality is one which will vary from or country will first ask, 'Where are we now? individual to individual; for one person
Journal
Family Practice – Oxford University Press
Published: Jun 1, 1984