Health Care Ten years after Alma Ata

In 1977 the Thirtieth World Health Assembly decided that the main social goal of governments and WHO should be “the attainment by all citizens of the world by the year 2000 of a level of health that will permit them to lead a socially and economically productive life”.The International Conference on Primary Health Care (PHC), meeting in Alma Ata, USSR, in 1978, asserted that health is a human right and that health care should be accessible, affordable and socially relevant.

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Health Care Ten years after Alma Ata author: Andrei K. Kisselev, Yuri E. Korneyev

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Seminar on Information and Dissemination of International Humanitarian Law as a contribution to peace (Leningrad, 10–14 October 1988) author:

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Scientific Symposium on the Precursors of the Red Cross (Geneva, 26-28 October 1988) author:

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Inauguration of the International Museum of the Red Cross (Geneva, 29 October 1988) author:

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Official visits to the ICRC author:

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Recent missions by the President of the ICRC author:

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Africa — Latin America — Asia — Middle East author:

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Assistance to the victims of armed conflicts author: Frits Kalshoven

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Statutory meetings in Geneva author:

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Recognition of the Mozambique Red Cross Society author: Cornelio Sommaruga

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Death of two eminent members of the Movement author:

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Thirteenth Round Table of the International Institute of Humanitarian Law (San Remo, 6–10 September 1988) author:

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