The Alma-Ata Declaration of 1978 on Primary Health Care identified all of the following as essential components EXCEPT:

• A Education on prevailing health problems and methods for preventing and controlling them
• B Provision of tertiary care hospitals in rural areas ✓
• C Maternal and child health care including family planning
• D Promotion of food supply and proper nutrition

Explanation

The Alma-Ata Declaration's eight essential components of PHC include health education, food and nutrition, safe water and sanitation, maternal and child health including family planning, immunisation, prevention and control of endemic diseases, appropriate treatment of common diseases, and supply of essential drugs. Tertiary care hospital provision in rural areas was not an Alma-Ata PHC component; PHC is fundamentally first-contact community-level care.

Reference: Park's Textbook of Preventive and Social Medicine, 27th ed.

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