Health for All Now! Reviving the spirit of Alma Ata in the Twenty-first century: An Introduction to the Alma Ata Declaration

Abstract In 1978 two United Nations organizations, the World Health Organization and UNICEF, held a joint conference at Alma Ata in the Soviet Union at which health was described as a human right to which all people were entitled. The goal of achieving health for all by the end of the century was es...

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Main Author: Fran Baum
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Social Medicine Publication Group 2007-01-01
Series:Social Medicine
Online Access:http://www.socialmedicine.info/index.php/socialmedicine/article/view/76