The Alma-Ata Decade: the crisis of development and international health

The paper analyzes formulations in the area of international health at the time of the International Conference on Primary Health Care, held in Alma Ata, Kazakhstan, in 1978. It is set within the context of the broader debate on development and international cooperation throughout the 1970s. Three s...

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Published in:Ciência & saude coletiva 2017-07, Vol.22 (7), p.2135-2144
Main Authors: Pires-Alves, Fernando Antônio, Cueto, Marcos
Format: Article
Language:eng ; por ; spa
Subjects:
Global Health
Humans
International Cooperation
Primary Health Care - organization & administration
Public Health
World Health Organization
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Summary:The paper analyzes formulations in the area of international health at the time of the International Conference on Primary Health Care, held in Alma Ata, Kazakhstan, in 1978. It is set within the context of the broader debate on development and international cooperation throughout the 1970s. Three sets of concepts and prescriptive formulations were examined namely: the New International Economic Order (NIEO), the Dag Hammarskjöld Report (DHR) and the Basic Human Needs Approach (BHN). They were compared with the proposals in documents from the World Health Organization and in the statements from Halfdan Mahler, its director. As a whole, this set of formulations and proposals share a broad spectrum of terms and notions, as well as much of the expectations for change and tensions that existed in the classic period of development during the later years of the post-war era.
ISSN:1413-8123
1678-4561
DOI:10.1590/1413-81232017227.02032017