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In recent years, the world has witnessed an alarming increase in the numbers of internally displaced people (IDPs). Today, IDPs represent the majority of the world’s displaced, with 71.1 million IDPs globally at the end of 2022. Of these, 62.5 million had been affected by conflict or violence and 8.7 million by disasters. Research suggests ...
In 1978, the Alma Ata declaration affirmed that care is a fundamental right as well as a social justice target. Furthermore, it set primary health care (PHC) as the key to meet this target and emphasised full participation (and self-reliance and self-determination) of the community. More than four decades later, community participation remains ...
