doi: 10.2471/blt.08.041008.
Primary health care comes full circle
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- DOI: 10.2471/blt.08.041008
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Primary health care comes full circle
Bull World Health Organ.
2008 Oct.
Abstract
Thirty years ago last month 134 Member States of the World Health Organization gathered in the former Kazakh capital, Alma-Ata, against a backdrop of the Cold War, at an international conference to reach a landmark agreement: to adopt primary health care as the key strategy for achieving ‘health for all’ by the year 2000. Dr Halfdan Mahler, who was director-general at the time, talks to the Bulletin about why primary health care lost its way and his hopes for its renewal today.
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