Aktivitäten zur Gesundheitsförderung und der gleiche Zugang älterer Menschen zu Gesundheitsversorgung und Gesundheitsdiensten, einschließlich der Prävention, während des ganzen Lebens sind der Eckpfeiler für ein gesundes Altern.
Primary health care is essential health care based on practical, scientifically sound and socially acceptable methods and technology made universally accessible to individuals and families in the community through their full participation, and at a cost that the community and country can afford to maintain at every stage of their development, in the spirit of self-reliance and self-determination.