Health for All by the year 2000

1981 - Global Strategyfor Health for Allby the Year 2000 
PREFACE 
In 1979, the Thirty-second World Health Assembly launched the Global Strategy for health for all by the year 2000 by adopting resolution WHA32 .30. In this resolution the Health Assembly endorsed the Report and Declaration of the International Conference on Primary Health Care, held in Alma-Ata, USSR, in 1978. In the same resolution, the Health Assembly invited the Member States of WHO to act individually in formulating national policies, strategies and plans of action for attaining this goal, and collectively in formulating regional and global strategies, using as a basis the guiding principles issued by WHO's Executive Board in the document entitled Formulating Strategies for Health for All by the Year 2000. A large number of countries in all regions have since formulated national strategies, and all regions have drafted regional strategies. The Global Strategy that follows has been based on the Alma-Ata Report and Declaration and the Executive Board's guiding principles; it reflects the national and regional strategies as seen from a global perspective. It also responds to resolution 34/58 of the United Nations General Assembly concerning health as an integral part of development, which was adopted in November 1979. This Global Strategy for health for all by the year 2000 was adopted by the Thirty-fourth World Health Assembly in resolution WHA34.36, which reads as follows: /.../

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