A Decade after Alma Ata

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Health care in Ethiopia, as described in this issue by Hodes and Kloos, presents a disturbing case of stagnation during what has probably been the most active decade of this century in international health.1 The 1978 Alma Ata conference sponsored by the World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF declared a historic consensus on the promotion of primary health care and named as its goal the achievement of health for all by the year 2000.2 Universal health would be attained by focusing priorities on the most appropriate interventions for the most common health problems in the communities of greatest need.In . . .

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