It is now 30 years since the 1978 Alma-Ata Declaration on Primary Health Care (PHC). But the durability of old challenges such as maternal and child deaths and emergence of new ones such as HIV and ...
What of the declaration from 1978 promising "Health for All"? Thirty years have gone by since the “Alma-Ata Declaration” – adopted on September 12, 1978 at the end of an international conference on ...
In Correspondence published early Online on thelancet.com Margaret Chan, director-general of WHO, receives the unequivocal support of her six regional directors for her quest to revitalise the vision ...
Primary health care is a whole-of-society approach that places people, families and communities at the centre of health systems. Rooted in the 1978 Alma-Ata Declaration, it embraces comprehensive, ...
Nearly 40 years ago, in Almaty (then Alma-Ata) city of present day Kazakhstan, an international conference of nearly 3000 public health experts took place in an effort to shape global public health.
Last year, in October at Astana, Kazakhstan, world leaders declared their commitment to ‘Primary Care’. They were reaffirming what their predecessors had done in Alma Ata in 1978. The Alma Ata ...
Health leaders from United Nations member states convene in Kazakhstan’s capital Astana to reconfirm the world’s commitment to comprehensive primary health care as the keystone of universal health ...
Instead of a health system striving to provide universal healthcare, a fragmented, profit-driven market "non-system" has emerged in recent decades. The 1980s' neo-liberal counter-revolution against ...
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