From Alma Ata to Dakar: Health for All, Education for All

From Alma-Ata to Rio: health for all to all for equity.

a Society for Community Health Awareness, Research and Action (SOCHARA), Bangalore, Karnataka, India. Correspondence to Ravi Narayan (email: [email protected]) The WHO South-East Asia Region was one of the crucibles for development of the primary health care (PHC) concept. The Bandung Conference on Rural Hygiene held in 1937 drew global attention, through the League of Nations Health Organizatio...

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

health education of schools hope for goal attainment “health for all up to 2000

the slogan of who in 1986 is “healthy life, victory for all”. it shows more confirmation and attention to positive personal and social activities in direction of health maintenance and health promotion. but in the world that anticipating near one billion people added to young and adolescent population up to 2000 and majority of them live in undeveloped countries and don’t access to health facil...

Health for all beyond 2000: the demise of the Alma-Ata Declaration and primary health care in developing countries.

Access to basic health services was affirmed as a fundamental human right in the Declaration of Alma-Ata in 1978. The model formally adopted for providing healthcare services was "primary health care" (PHC), which involved universal, community-based preventive and curative services, with substantial community involvement. PHC did not achieve its goals for several reasons, including the refusal ...

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...