Abstract:September of this year marked the 37 th anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration on Primary Health Care (PHC), one of the most important documents in the history of international public health. From September 6-12, 1978, over 3,000 delegates from various countries came together for a conference organized by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF), in Alma-Ata, a city in the former Soviet Union, to discuss and approve the PHC, which subse… Show more
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