Primary health care comes full circle

Thirty years ago last month 134 Member States of the World Health Organization gathered in the former Kazakh capital, Alma-Ata, against a backdrop of the Cold War, at an international conference to reach a landmark agreement: to adopt primary health care as the key strategy for achieving ‘health for...

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Published in:Bulletin of the World Health Organization 2008-10, Vol.86 (10), p.747-748
Main Author: Mahler, Halfdan
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Analysis
Beliefs, opinions and attitudes
Cold War
Conferences, meetings and seminars
Consensus Development Conferences as Topic
Disease
Health aspects
Healthy People Programs - history
History, 20th Century
Humans
International conferences
International Cooperation
Mahler, Halfdan Theodor
Malaria
Maternal & child health
Medical care
NGOs
Nongovernmental organizations
Physicians
Primary care
Primary Health Care - history
Tuberculosis
World Health Organization - history
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Summary:Thirty years ago last month 134 Member States of the World Health Organization gathered in the former Kazakh capital, Alma-Ata, against a backdrop of the Cold War, at an international conference to reach a landmark agreement: to adopt primary health care as the key strategy for achieving ‘health for all’ by the year 2000. Dr Halfdan Mahler, who was director-general at the time, talks to the Bulletin about why primary health care lost its way and his hopes for its renewal today.
ISSN:0042-9686
1564-0604
DOI:10.2471/blt.08.041008