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Global Conference on Primary Health Care held in Astana

AKIPRESS.COM - The Global Conference on Primary Health Care, which took place in Astana, Kazakhstan, on 25–26 October 2018, brought together 1 200 delegates from more than 120 countries to recommit to strengthening primary health care.

The opening plenary paid tribute to the revolutionary Declaration of Alma-Ata from 1978, which was the first to underline the importance of primary health care and put health equity on the international agenda. In her address, Dr Zsuzsanna Jakab, WHO Regional Director for Europe, reminded the audience of how the Declaration continues to provide direction to our work today. She underlined to the global leaders gathered that “it is our responsibility to ignite a new era of primary health care – one that accelerates implementation and collective action to realize a primary health care approach once and for all.”

Erbolat Dossaev, Deputy Prime Minister of Kazakhstan, emphasized in his plenary address that investing in primary health care is as important today as it was 40 years ago. Prevention and early detection of a disease in primary health care is more cost-effective than the treatment of a disease in hospital, he said.

A high-level ministerial plenary explored the whole-of-government approach to advancing primary health care.

The plenary looked at lessons learned over the past 40 years and sought to create a movement, with the Declaration of Astana as a starting point, for the strengthening of primary health care as the foundation of universal health coverage and to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.

The Declaration of Astana was then adopted unanimously by member states. It makes pledges in 4 key areas: make bold political choices for health across all sectors; build sustainable primary health care; empower individuals and communities; align stakeholder support to national policies, strategies and plans.

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