Primary health care available, accessible, affordable and acceptable to all citizens. Access to primary health care services is a major cornerstone in the maintenance of good health. Preventive and primary care can be less expensive in the long run than emergency services and long-term medical management. If this care is not accessible, affordable, or does not meet the people s needs, this savings cannot be achieved. Optimum agency, community, and volunteer collaboration and cooperation in providing resources and services for health care, health education, and preventive health programs appropriate to community needs.
Resources are limited.
Collaboration and cooperation help ensure that these resources will be efficiently utilized through eliminating duplication, combining resource opportunities, and targeting services. Appropriate, efficient and effective use of all private and public funding by service providers. As funding resources decline, they need to be targeted to ensure their best use. Otherwise, some needs of the community will go unmet. A community knowledgeable of and effectively using appropriate health service offerings.