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Alma Ata Declaration

Also Known As International Conference on Primary Health Care

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A 1978 international declaration issued at a World Health Organization conference in Alma Ata, then in the Soviet Union, naming primary health care the key to achieving Health for All, and framing health as a fundamental human right requiring social and economic action beyond the health sector alone.

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1978 1
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Alma Ata, Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic 1
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Wikipedia: Declaration of Alma-Ata
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Declaration of Alma-Ata was adopted at the International Conference on Primary Health Care (PHC), which was jointly convened by WHO and UNICEF and held on 6-12 September 1978 in Almaty, Kazakhstan
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