Declaration of Alma-Ata, 1978

Declaration from the International Conference on Primary Health Care, Alma-Ata, September 1978, expressing the need for urgent national and international action to protect and promote the health of all, believing that it is a fundamental human right and that the attainment of the highest possible level of health is a most important world-wide social goal whose realization requires the action of many other social and economic sectors in addition to the health sector.