The primary health care(PHC) movement officially began in 1977 when the 30th World Health Organization(WHO) Assembly adopted a resolution accepting the goal of attaining a level of health that permitted all citizens of the world to live socially and economically productive lives. As a WHO member nation, Korea has endorsed primary health care as a strategy for achieving the goal of Health For All by the Year 2000. However, PHC, with its emphasis on broad strategies, community participation, self reliance, and a multidisciplinary health care delivary team, is not the primary strategy for improving the of Korean.
The Neuman´s systems model has been described as a grand nursing theory. A grand nursing theory consists of a comprehensive conceptual framework that defines broad perspectives for practice. This model is an example of a conceptual framework that provides structure for development and analysis of an individual or group of patients in the community or in an organization. One of the model´s strength is that it can be useed ina variety of setting.
So The Neuman´s model is used a nursing process format for community health nursing. The Neuman´s model is fully congruent with concept and philosophy of today´s PHC.
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