This month, health leaders from United Nations member states convene in Kazakhstan’s capital Astana to reconfirm the world’s commitment to comprehensive primary health care as the keystone of ...

What of the declaration from 1978 promising "Health for All"? Thirty years have gone by since the “Alma-Ata Declaration” – adopted on September 12, 1978 at the end of an international conference on ...

It is now 30 years since the 1978 Alma-Ata Declaration on Primary Health Care (PHC). But the durability of old challenges such as maternal and child deaths and emergence of new ones such as HIV and ...

Nearly 40 years ago, in Almaty (then Alma-Ata) city of present day Kazakhstan, an international conference of nearly 3000 public health experts took place in an effort to shape global public health.

The 1978 Alma-Ata declaration announced global agreement that health is a “fundamental human right” and called for “urgent and effective national and international action to develop and implement ...

The 40th anniversary of the 1978 Alma-Ata Declaration on Primary Health Care was marked recently. The vision, principles and desirables of the PHC augury are pertinent to the hopes and strategies of ...

In Correspondence published early Online on thelancet.com Margaret Chan, director-general of WHO, receives the unequivocal support of her six regional directors for her quest to revitalise the vision ...

Instead of a health system striving to provide universal healthcare, a fragmented, profit-driven market "non-system" has emerged in recent decades. The 1980s' neo-liberal counter-revolution against ...