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The conference marked the 40th anniversary of the Alma-Ata Declaration, and united world leaders to affirm that strong primary health care is essential to achieve universal health coverage. [6] The conference resulted in the adoption of the Astana Declaration on Primary Health Care that reaffirmed and extended the Alma-Ata Declaration. [7]
Primary health care (PHC) is a whole-of-society approach to effectively organise and strengthen national health systems to bring services for health and wellbeing closer to communities. [ 1 ] Primary health care enables health systems to support a person’s health needs – from health promotion to disease prevention, treatment, rehabilitation ...
The primary health center or primary healthcare center (PHC) is the basic structural and functional unit of the public health services in developing countries.PHCs were established to provide accessible, affordable and available primary health care to people, in accordance with the Alma Ata Declaration of 1978 by the member nations of the World Health Organization WHO.
AFHC third conference nobori in Ichikawa, Chiba in October 2008. The first international declaration that promoted the concepts underlying healthy cities, the Alma Ata Declaration, was adopted at the International Conference for Primary Health Care, jointly convened by the WHO and UNICEF in Almaty (formerly Alma-Ata), presently in Kazakhstan, 6–12 September 1978. [3]
The 1978 World Health Organization (WHO) declaration at Alma-Ata was the first formal acknowledgment of the importance of intersectoral action for health. [5] The spirit of Alma-Ata was carried forward in the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion (adopted in Ottawa in 1986), which discussed "healthy public policies" as a key area for health promotion.
He was a key contributor to the Alma Ata Declaration. At the age of 88, this energetic man assumed the challenging position as Country Director for the nonprofit organization Future Generations Afghanistan where he led innovative field-based activities until age 90. He worked in over 70 countries and had students from more than 100 countries.
Halfdan Theodor Mahler (21 April 1923 – 14 December 2016) was a Danish physician. [1] He served three terms as Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) from 1973 to 1988, and is widely known for his effort to combat tuberculosis and his role in having shaped the landmark Alma Ata Declaration that defined the Health for All by the Year 2000 strategy.
The basis of the Health For All strategy is primary health care. Two decades later, WHO Director General Lee Jong-wook (2003–2006) reaffirmed the concept in the World Health Report 2003: [2] Health for all became the slogan for a movement.