Essential surgery as a key component of primary health care: reflections on the 40th anniversary of Alma-Ata

BMJ Glob Health. 2018 Sep 6;3(Suppl 3):e000705. doi: 10.1136/bmjgh-2017-000705. eCollection 2018.

Authors

Dylan Paul Griswold¹, Mwai H Makoka², S William A Gunn³, Walter D Johnson¹

Affiliations

¹ Emergency and Essential Surgical Care Programme, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.
² Programme for Health and Healing, World Council of Churches, Geneva, Switzerland.
³ International Federation of Surgical Colleges, London, UK.

No abstract available

Keywords: Alma-Ata declaration; essential surgery; global surgery; primary health care; universal health coverage.

Grants and funding

001/WHO_/World Health Organization/International