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Health and Human Development - Health for all
Health for all
Health For All [1] is a level of health attainment that should allow
everyone to lead socially and economically productive lives. It endeavours
to reduce the inequality in health status between population groups. Health
For All [2]requires the involvement and commitment of governments at the
highest level. It requires long-term strategies that address lifestyles,
healthy environments and health impact of public policies as well as
healthcare. The importance of primary level healthcare, health promotion
and disease prevention needed to be encompassed whilst also promoting the
importance of community involvement and international trade cooperation in
health.
The Health For All [3] strategy emerged from the 30th World Health
Assembly. It recognised that access to adequate food, shelter, education,
water, sanitation, secure work and a useful role in society were
prerequisites for health for all. This strategy also recognised an
inequality of illness throughout the population. This was due to social,
economic and cultural factors such as income, education, availability of
transport and access to employment or social welfare. The Health For All
strategy recognised that the main determinants of health were outside the
healthcare system and so required the involvement and commitment of
governments at the highest level. Issues of equity or fairness need to be
addressed and the strategies should be long-term and placed in relationship
to health and quality of life. The Health for All strategy addressed
lifestyle, healthy environments and the health impact of public policies as
well as healthcare.
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Govt. should take initiative about health care for all
Are we come forward?
Human and health development and health for all requires the involvement and commitment of governments
how many elements have been developed from the conference sponsored by the WHO and UNICEF, held in Alta-Ata, Russia, in 1978?
Identify four of the nine elements.
Define WHO Define UNICEF
what does the World Health Organization promote in relation to this module?
Health For All means that health is to be brought within reach of everyone in a given country. And by "health" is meant a personal state of well being, not just the availability of health services – a state of health that enables a person to lead a socially and economically productive life. Health For All implies the removal of the obstacles to health – that is to say, the elimination of malnutrition, ignorance, contaminated drinking water and unhygienic housing – quite as much as it does the solution of purely medical problems such as a lack of doctors, hospital beds, drugs and vaccines. Health For All means that health should be regarded as an objective of economic development and not merely as one of the means of attaining it. Health For All demands, ultimately, literacy for all. Until this becomes reality it demands at least the beginning of an understanding of what health means for every individual. Health For All depends on continued progress in medical care and public health. The health services must be accessible to all through primary health care, in which basic medical help is available in every village, backed up by referral services to more specialised care. Immunisation must similarly achieve universal coverage.
Health For All means that health is to be brought within reach of everyone in a given country. And by "health" is meant a personal state of well being, not just the availability of health services – a state of health that enables a person to lead a socially and economically productive life.
The concept of health for all strategy addressed lifestyles, healthy environments and the health impact of public policies as well as healthcare, I think through a healthy environment as it relates to health, it consists of preventing or controlling diseases, injuries and disability related to the interactions between people and their environment.