The Christian Medical Commission and the Development of the World Health Organization’s Primary Health Care Approach
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11019486 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Socrates Litsio (0000-0002-8381-117X, World Health Organization - Pakistan, corresponding author), Socrates Litsios (The author is retired from the World Health Organization.) |
| Year | 2004 |
| Volume | 94 |
| Issue | 11 |
| Pages | 1884-1893 |
| Publication date | 2004-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of Public Health (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0090-0036 • E-ISSN: 1541-0048 |
| Publisher | American Public Health Association (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2105/ajph.94.11.1884 |
| PMID | 15514223 |
| OpenAlex | W1981685755 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 32 |
| References cited | 5 |
The primary health care approach was introduced to the World Health Organization (WHO) Executive Board in January 1975. In this article, I describe the changes that occurred within WHO leading up to the executive board meeting that made it possible for such a radical approach to health services to emerge when it did. I also describe the lesser-known developments that were taking place in the Christian Medical Commission at the same time, developments that greatly enhanced the case for primary health care within WHO and its subsequent support by nongovernmental organizations concerned with community health
Commission · Executive board · Family medicine · Health care · International health · Management · Political science · Primary care · Primary health care · Public relations · Global Maternal and Child Health · Law · Medicine · Religion, Society, and Development · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology · Health Policy
Moving Away from the “Medical Model”
The World Health Organization
Community participation
Community health workers for universal health-care coverage
Une généalogie missionnaire et coloniale de l'humanitaire
The Spirit of Global Health
The Local and the Global in Primary Health Care
Religion and the World Health Organization
About Face
Remembering Socrates Litsios
From engineer to historian
Qua Iboe by motorcycle and launch
Atas do espírito
Wholistic Health Care
Environments and Mutable Selves
Anthropology in a Mode of Dying
Arc of Interference
In the Vast Abrupt
Ethnographic Open
The trouble with maternal death narratives
Comprehensive review of the evidence regarding the effectiveness of community–based primary health care in improving maternal, neonatal and child health
A década de Alma-Ata
Practicing Hope
Community-Oriented Primary Care and Primary Health Care
A Role for Public Health History
A Return to the Social Justice Spirit of Alma-Ata
The Jamkhed Comprehensive Rural Health Project and the Alma-Ata Vision of Primary Health Care
The World Health Organization and the Transition From “International” to “Global” Public Health
Recovering religion
The public valuation of religion in global health governance
The political economy of 'strengthening health services
A transição de saúde pública 'internacional' para 'global' e a Organização Mundial da Saúde
| Unique citing works | 32 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,45 |
| Citation span | 2004 - 2024 (21) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 31 |