Study

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NUR-103 route
Unit 1 · Lesson 3 of 4 9 min

The Bamako Initiative (1987)

A clinic with no drugs is just a building. Here is how Africa tried to keep the shelves full.

What this unit covers

Unit 1: Concept and Historical Development of Primary Health Care

  1. 1 Definition of Primary Health CareMost of the health a nation enjoys is made far from the big hospitals. This is the idea that says so. · 10 min
  2. 2 The Alma-Ata Declaration (1978)Why health ministers from all over the world flew to a city in Soviet Central Asia, and what they promised there. · 10 min
  3. 3 The Bamako Initiative (1987)A clinic with no drugs is just a building. Here is how Africa tried to keep the shelves full. · 9 min
  4. 4 The Astana Declaration (2018) and Universal Health CoverageForty years on, the world came back to Kazakhstan to renew a promise it had not yet kept. · 10 min