Cuarenta años después: Volver a Alma-Ata

Return to Alma-Ata.

The ambition, which launched the health for all movement, was bold. It assumed that enlightened policy could raise the level of health in deprived populations and thus drive overall development. The declaration broadened the medical model to include social and economic factors, and acknowledged that activities in many sectors, including civil society organizations, shaped the prospects for impr...

Alma-Ata and Primary Health Care: An Evolving Story

The story of how Alma-Ata and Primary Health Care gained the attention of the world’s health leadership must be seen as one of the most intriguing in the history of health and development. The postcolonial years in the developing world saw health care that was largely hospital-based and curative in its orientation, whichmeant, of course, that most people who needed health care had little or no ...

'Health for All' Alma-Ata Declaration--an elusive Holy Grail.

Lessons from community participation in health programmes: a review of the post Alma-Ata experience.

The year 2008 marked the 30 year anniversary of Primary Health Care, the health policy of all member nations of the WHO. Community participation was one of the key principles of this policy. This article reviews the experiences of and lessons learned by policy makers, planners and programme managers in attempting to integrate community participation into their health programmes. The lessons, id...

[What a primary health care is: some considerations after almost thirty five years of Alma-Ata].

Primary health care was conceived in the 70s as a comprehensive, joint and inclusive strategy to achieve the goal of "Health for Everyone". It was the result of important social, political and economic changes which occurred at global level back in those years and which persist until now. Due to an unfortunate combination of words, Primary Healthcare has been mistakenly understood by many as "h...