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Primary health care refers to a broad range of health services provided by medical professionals in the community. This means universal health care is accessible to all individuals and families in a community. All people, irrespective of caste, race, nation, everywhere, deserve the right care, right in their community, which is basic to the premise of primary health care. Primary health care is essential to a person for leading sound health throughout the life. This includes physical, mental, and social well-being of all people at all times. It should cover health promotion, disease prevention, treatment, rehabilitation, and palliative care. The best way to approach the people for is to meet their health needs throughout their lives. In order to bring awareness on broader determinants of health through the multispectral policy, it is necessary to convince the population at individual, family, and community levels to take responsibility for their own. The first section is about Alma-Ata acceptance of definition on primary health care as defined by the WHO: “a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity,” The definition includes social and economic sectors within the scope of attaining health and reaffirms health as a human right.