Community Health Development: A realistic goal or a pipe dream

Published: Dec. 19, 2011, 3:17 p.m.

b'Health for All by the Year 2000 was the goal of the Alma Ata Declaration in 1978. The authors, many of them Christians, hoped to achieve access to basic healthcare for all people using a community health development approach. Yet more than 30 years later the concept languishes. What have we learned during the past 30 years that might restore the goal?'