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Social Determinants of Health

WHO called to return to the


Declaration of Alma-Ata
International conference on
primary health care
The Alma-Ata Declaration of 1978 emerged as a
major milestone of the twentieth century in the
field of public health, and it identified primary
health care as the key to the attainment of the goal
of Health for All. The following are excerpts from
the Declaration:

The Conference strongly rea!rms that health,


which is a state of complete physical, mental,
and social well-being, and not merely the
absence of disease or infirmity, is a fundamental
human right and that the attainment of the
highest possible level of health is a most
important world-wide social goal whose
realization requires the action of many other
social and economic sectors in addition to the
health sector.
The existing gross inequality in the health status
of the people, particularly between developed
and developing countries as well as within
countries, is politically, socially, and
economically unacceptable and is, therefore, of
common concern to all countries.
The people have a right and duty to participate
individually and collectively in the planning and
implementation of their health care.
Primary health care is essential health care
based on practical, scientifically sound, and
socially acceptable methods and technology
made universally accessible to individuals and
families in the community through their full
participation and at a cost that the community
and country can a"ord to maintain at every
stage of their development in the spirit of self-
reliance and self-determination. It forms an
integral part both of the country's health
system, of which it is the central function and
main focus, and of the overall social and
economic development of the community. It is
the first level of contact of individuals, the
family, and community with the national health
system bringing health care as close as possible
to where people live and work, and constitutes
the first elements of a continuing health care
process.
An acceptable level of health for all the people
of the world by the year 2000 can be attained
through a fuller and better use of the world's
resources, a considerable part of which is now
spent on armaments and military conflicts. A
genuine policy of independence, peace,
détente, and disarmament could and should
release additional resources that could well be
devoted to peaceful aims and in particular to
the acceleration of social and economic
development of which primary health care, as
an essential part, should be allotted its proper
share.

Declaration of Alma-Ata

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