title: The road to health.
abstract: This article is published as a tribute to Professor Thomas McKeown, the eminent epidemiologist, who died in 1988 aged 75. In it the author urges that the spread of services comprising primary health care be arranged in strict order of priority. Since improvements in nutrition have a particularly profound effect on health they should be the primary aim of developing countries.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: McKeown
mesh_terms: D003140:Communicable Disease Control; D003906:Developing Countries; D006801:Humans; D007114:Immunization; D009747:Nutritional Physiological Phenomena; D011320:Primary Health Care / Q000379:methods / Q000458:organization & administration*; D011634:Public Health