Achieving health for all

Assuring universal health care

Description

Achieving health for all involves ensuring equitable access to essential healthcare services, promoting disease prevention, and addressing social determinants of health. This strategy prioritizes strengthening primary healthcare systems, expanding immunization and sanitation programs, and fostering community participation. By targeting underserved populations and reducing health disparities, it aims to remedy preventable illness and premature death, ultimately enabling individuals and communities to attain optimal health and well-being regardless of socioeconomic status or geographic location.

Context

The goal contained in the declaration from the historic 1978 Alma-Ata conference of WHO is: "The attainment of all peoples of the world by the year 2000 of a level of health that will permit them to lead a socially and economically productive life.