Health as an Integral Part of Development

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 66 Examination of long-term trends in economic development, published in 1979.

What subjects does this mandate have?

1 subject

Primary Health Care

What’s in this document?

7 operative paragraphs

Endorses the Declaration of Alma Ata, 28 in particular the view that primary health care, aimed at the solution of the major world health problems through a combination of promotive, preventive, curative and rehabilitative measures, constitutes the key to the ultimate achievement of a healthful society, especially when primary health care is incorporated into the development process, particularly that of developing countries;

Notes with approval the decision of the World Health Assembly, contained in resolution WHA 32.30, that the development of the programmes of the World Health Organization and the allocation of its resources at the global, regional and country levels should reflect the commitment of that organization to the priority of the achievement of health for all by the year 2000;29 3.

Calls upon the relevant bodies of the United Nations system to co-ordinate with and support the efforts of the World Health Organization by appropriate actions within their respective spheres of competence;

Appeals to Member States to carry out the actions called for in the Declaration of Alma Ata;

Reiterates the appeal contained in paragraph 10 of World Health Assembly resolution WHA 32.30 to the international community to give full support to the formulation and implementation of national, regional 28 E/ICEF/L.1387, annex, sect. V.

29 Thirty-second World Health Assembly, Geneva, 7-25 May 1979, Resolutions and Decisions, pp. 27-29.

and global strategies for achieving an acceptable level of health for al1;29 welcomes the decision of the World Health Assembly to ensure that the global strategy shall be refleeted in the contribution of the World Health Organization to the preparation of the international development strategy for the third United Nations development deeade and calls upon the Preparatory Committee for the New International Development Strategy to give full and careful attention to the contribution of the World Health Organization;

Calls upon Member States, both developed countries and developing, to co-operate with each other and with the World Health Organization in the exchange of technological information and expertise in order to facilitate the achievement of the primary health care goals;

Requests the Director-General of the World Health Organization, after the sixty-seventh session of the Executive Board of the World Health Organization and the thirty-fourth World Health Assembly, to submit a report to the Economic and Social Council, at the appropriate session of 1981, on the progress achieved in the formulation of the global health strategy and calls upon the Council, in tum, to submit recommendations for further action by the General Assembly at its thirtysixth session.

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