title: Primary health care: then and now.
abstract: The term primary health care is now entrenched in our minds and our actions. A health for all by the year 2000 strategy is being examined to determine what has been achieved and what has not. All countries and most professions, including nursing, are scrutinizing the progress they have made towards achieving PHC. It is my intention, in this discourse, to move from an historical view to present-day concerns as they relate to the achievement of PHC. It will be impossible to do more than mention many of the latter, but I hope to set the stage for the articles that follow in this issue of the Journal.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Nursing, University of Manitoba.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Glass
mesh_terms: D002170:Canada; D003152:Community Health Nursing / Q000193:education / Q000458:organization & administration*; D005544:Forecasting; D014943:Global Health; D006293:Health Promotion / Q000458:organization & administration; D006801:Humans; D007587:Job Description; D020380:Needs Assessment / Q000458:organization & administration*; D015403:Nursing Evaluation Research; D011057:Politics; D011320:Primary Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D015397:Program Evaluation; D014944:World Health Organization