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Health Care Ten years after Alma Ata

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 January 2010

Andrei K. Kisselev  and
Yuri E. Korneyev
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In 1977 the Thirtieth World Health Assembly decided that the main social goal of governments and WHO should be “the attainment by all citizens of the world by the year 2000 of a level of health that will permit them to lead a socially and economically productive life”.

The International Conference on Primary Health Care (PHC), meeting in Alma Ata, USSR, in 1978, asserted that health is a human right and that health care should be accessible, affordable and socially relevant.

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Research Article
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International Review of the Red Cross (1961 - 1997) , Volume 28 , Issue 267 , December 1988 , pp. 519 - 530
Copyright
Copyright © International Committee of the Red Cross 1988

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This article is based on the text of a working document prepared for the Henry Dunant Institute (HDI, 1:88).

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