Buenos Aires 30-15: From Alma-Ata to the Millennium Declaration International Conference on Health for Development: Rights, Facts and Realities
August 13-17, 2007 - Buenos Aires, Argentina
Website: http://www.buenosaires30-15.gov.ar/home-ing.html
Close to the 30th anniversary of the Alma-Ata Declaration, under which the WHO Member States adopted the Primary Health Care Strategy, the Ministry of Health of the Argentina Republic fosters an international meeting with a view to building up new consensus and promoting global and regional alliances to strengthen health systems, aimed at contributing to the enhancement of health policies for the attainment of the Millennium Development Objectives in 2015.
Issues
Primary health care and health systems in the current global context.
Human resources in health for the new millennium.
Equity in health and financing.
The Sessions Schedule includes:
Conferences presented by Health Ministers from Brazil, Chile, Spain, Mexico, and Portugal on "New Experiences and Current Health Policies in Primary Health Care".
Conferences with International Speakers.
Presentation by 20 countries of National Policies on Primary Health Care focused on the following issues:
1. Health and gender policy
2. Environmental health policy
3. Human resources policy on health
4. Health policy for the epidemiological transition
5. Drug policy
Download the PDF http://www.buenosaires30-15.gov.ar/documentos/BsAs3015ing.PDF
Document: EXECUTE SUMMARY. Preliminary document for discussion. "Towards Integral Healthcare for all http://www.buenosaires30-15.gov.ar/documentos/ATT00251.pdf
Dr Chan: high-quality health care must reach the poor
16 August 2007 -- In her first major address on primary health care, WHO Director-General Dr Margaret Chan stressed that this is the most promising way to meet the Millennium Development Goals. "If we want better health to work as a poverty reduction strategy, we must reach the poor. And we must do so with appropriate, high-quality care," she told a primary health care conference in Argentina.
Speech: http://www.who.int/dg/speeches/2007/20070816_argentina/en/index.html
Related Links:
PAHO Web Page for the 25th Anniversary of the Alma-Ata Declaration http://www.paho.org/english/dd/pin/almaata25.htm
PAHO Press release: http://www.paho.org/English/DD/PIN/pr070816.htm
Country Experiences on Primary Health care:
http://www.buenosaires30-15.gov.ar/experiencias-ing.html
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Ana Lucia Ruggiero
mailto:ruglucia@paho.org