tailieunhanh - Primary Health Care

Stresses on the climate system are already causing impacts on Earth’s surface. These include not only rising surface temperatures, but also increasingly frequent floods and droughts, and changes in natural ecosystems, such as earlier flower- ing of plants, and poleward shifts in the distribution of several species. All of these changes are inextricably linked to the health of human societies. Climatic conditions affect human well-being both directly, through the physical effects of climatic extremes, and indirectly, through influences on the levels of pollution in the air, on the agricultural, marine and freshwater systems that provide food and water, and on the vectors and pathogens that cause infectious diseases. As. | Alma-Ata 1978 Primary Health Care Report of the International Conference on Primary Health Care Alma-Ata USSR 6-12 September 1978 Jointly sponsored by the World Health Organization and the United Nations Children s Fund WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION GENEVA 1978 DECLARATION The International Conference on Primary Health Care meeting in Alma-Ata this twelfth day of September in the year Nineteen hundred and seventy-eight expressing the need for urgent action by all governments all health and development workers and the world community to protect and promote the health of all the people of the world hereby makes the following Declaration I The Conference strongly reaffirms that health which is a state of complete physical mental and social wellbeing and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity 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. n The existing gross inequality in the health status of the people particularly between developed and developing countries as well as within countries is politically socially and economically unacceptable and is therefore of common concern to all countries. HI Economic and social development based on a New International Economic Order is of basic importance to the fullest attainment of health for all and to the reduction of the gap between the health status of the developing and developed countries. The promotion and pro- 2 OF ALMA-ATA tection of the health of the people is essential to sustained economic and social development and contributes to a better quality of life and to world peace. IV The people have the right and duty to participate individually and collectively in the planning and implementation of their health care. V Governments have a responsibility for the health of their people which can be fulfilled only by the .