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

• Main Authors: Pol De Vos (Author), Geraldine Malaise (Author), Wim De Ceukelaire (Author), Denis Pérez (Author), Pierre Lefèvre (Author), Patrick Van der Stuyft (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Social Medicine Publication Group, 2009-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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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 g...