Alma Ata: the relevance of socio-economic determinants for Primary Care Francisco Carlos Bernal, Danilo Oliveira, Marcelo Lamy

Abstract

 In 2023, the Alma-Ata Declaration on Primary Health Care turned 45 years old. Moved by this date, this study aimed to uncover contributions of this international document that transcend the model of priority medical care that it proposed and became a paradigm. Based on data collection and bibliographic analysis, from a critical-narrative perspective, the following contributions were identified: overcoming the narrow concept that health is only the absence of disease; recognizing the complexity of the health phenomenon, influenced by various socio-economic determinants; and realizing the need to adopt social and economic public policies.