Taber's Medical Dictionary
Alma-Ata Declaration
(al′mă ă-tah′ )
[Capital of Kazakhstan]
A declaration made in 1978 at the Conference on Primary Health Care in Alma-Ata, USSR. It stated that primary health care is the key to attaining health for all by the year 2000. Eight elements were defined as essential to this: education, food supply, safe water, maternal and child health (including family planning), immunization, prevention and control of endemic diseases, appropriate treatment of common diseases and injuries, and provision of essential drugs.
Citation
Venes, Donald, editor. "Alma-Ata Declaration." Taber's Medical Dictionary, 25th ed., F.A. Davis Company, 2025. Taber's Online, www.tabers.com/tabersonline/view/Tabers-Dictionary/749310/0/Alma_Ata_Declaration.
Alma-Ata Declaration. In: Venes DD, ed. Taber's Medical Dictionary. F.A. Davis Company; 2025. https://www.tabers.com/tabersonline/view/Tabers-Dictionary/749310/0/Alma_Ata_Declaration. Accessed April 24, 2026.
Alma-Ata Declaration. (2025). In Venes, D. (Ed.), Taber's Medical Dictionary (25th ed.). F.A. Davis Company. https://www.tabers.com/tabersonline/view/Tabers-Dictionary/749310/0/Alma_Ata_Declaration
Alma-Ata Declaration [Internet]. In: Venes DD, editors. Taber's Medical Dictionary. F.A. Davis Company; 2025. [cited 2026 April 24]. Available from: https://www.tabers.com/tabersonline/view/Tabers-Dictionary/749310/0/Alma_Ata_Declaration.
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