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Sustainable health? primary health care and selective alleviation
Author(s) -
Gerhardt Chloe
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
sustainable development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.115
H-Index - 64
eISSN - 1099-1719
pISSN - 0968-0802
DOI - 10.1002/sd.3460020102
Subject(s) - primary health care , health care , sustainable development , primary care , health policy , health for all , business , nursing , environmental resource management , environmental planning , economic growth , political science , medicine , geography , economics , family medicine , law
This paper suggests that there needs to be consideration of what is sustainable health, a definition of which should look beyond the feasibility of maintaining biomedically oriented health strategies. Such a definition needs to be located within a health sensitive development framework. The paper examines some of the debates around appropriate primary health care and looks in particular at health programmes aimed at intervening in diarrhoeal episodes.