WHO Revives 1978 Plan to Provide 'Health for All'

World Health Organization head Margaret Chan is reviving a 30-year-old approach to providing universal health care to meet United Nations goals for development and her commitment to helping women and Africans.

Chan, 61, is emphasizing primary health care as a means to providing equitable access to care and efficiency in service delivery -- goals described in the so-called Declaration of Alma-Ata in 1978 that targeted "health for all'' by 2000 and which the WHO concluded in 1994 weren't achievable. The new plan for primary health will be detailed in the Geneva-based agency's World Health Report, scheduled for release next month. read the complete article »