World Federation of Public Health Associations.

Sixteen years earlier -in 1978 -WFPHA had developed a position paper representing the views of the international nongovernmental community that was presented at the International Conference on Primary Health Care held in Alma-Ata, of the former Kazakh SSR. That paper expressed the enthusiastic support of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) for the goal of ‘Health for All’ by the Year 2000 through primary health care and laid out ways NGOs could assist in that effort. The paper stated that "substantial improvements in the well-being of people cannot be expected merely as a result of better health care, but require a whole range of social, economic, political, and cultural activities, i.e., primary health care must be an integral part of the overall development of society."