Conclusion The meeting participants proposed the Cancun Manifesto, an action plan for
MCFM to lead a long-term strategy for health reform in Mexico. 30 To increase …

There is little or no role for primary care and family medicine in current health reforms in
Mexico. However, robust evidence shows that primary care helps prevent morbidity and …

Skyrocketing health care costs are burdening our people and our economy, yet health care
indicators show how little we are achieving with the money we spend. Federal and state …

At the 2003 meeting of the Directing Council of the Pan American Health Organization
(PAHO), the PAHO Member States issued a mandate to strengthen primary health care …

Since the 1980s, after the return of democracy, most Latin American countries (LAC)
experienced both important improvements in the population's living conditions and health …

Rev Panam Salud Publica/Pan Am J Public Health 21 (2/3), 2007 69 tries (5), constitute a
set of measurable objectives and goals aimed at addressing poverty, hunger, disease …

Introduction: Chilean policy makers reformed the national health policy for primary health
care (PHC), shifting from the traditional biomedical model to the integral family and …

This issue of the NCMJ highlights a variety of interventions aimed at improving the health of
populations. The Institute of Medicine (IOM) of the National Academies has recommended …

Half a dozen years into the era of" Primary Health Care" 1 the practical application of this
globally endorsed concept has been woefully inadequate. One of the reasons for the gap …

Forty years ago, the Region of the Americas played a critical role in the development and
negotiation of the Alma-Ata Declaration, which identified primary health care as a central …