Alma-Ata Declaration (1978)
With the Declaration of Alma-Ata (also Alma-Ata Declaration ) that made the WHO in 1978 a decisive step in the direction at a conference basic health care and health promotion . Delegations from 123 governments and 67 non-governmental organizations took part in the conference in Alma-Ata ( Soviet Union , Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic ).
The Alma-Ata conference made health a fundamental human right and primary health care a key concept for WHO. In addition to the health sector, social and economic sectors were also named as responsible for health development for the first time , and the interaction between the various sectors and the participation of citizens were deemed necessary.
One of the most important follow-up documents to this declaration is the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion from 1986, in which the currently valid health policy model for integrative health promotion was formulated.