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 ...

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 ...

Countries around the globe today signed the Declaration of Astana, vowing to strengthen their primary health caresystems as an essential step towards achieving universal health coverage. The ...

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.

The radical agreement, which took a community-based approach to health, never became universally accepted, although its ideals live on in Switzerland’s work in foreign countries. Named after the ...

In September 1978, the international community adopted the Declaration of Alma-Ata, one of the most important global agreements ever reached in the effort to achieve universal health coverage.

The health department says new regulations likely to come into force early next year are a step towards getting Western and traditional medicine to work together ...

Community health was an idea mooted by world leaders in 1978 that created the Declaration of Alma-Ata, which reaffirmed access to health as a fundamental human right and identified primary health care ...