The Alma-Ata Declaration is considered by many to be the founding framework for health promotion internationally. It came from an International Conference on Primary Health Care, in Alma-Ata, USSR, 1978. “The International Conference on Primary Health Care, meeting in Alma-Ata this twelfth day of September in the year 1978, 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 …"
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