Health for all by the year 2000

ABSTRACT

1. Based on World Health Assembly Resolution, the World Health Organization [WHO] and UNICEF together with representatives of member governments launched a compaign in 1978 to achieve Health for all by the year 2000" through primary health care. The objective of this compaign was to increase the political commitment of member countries to address to the health needs of their people.2. In this article the various aspects of putting the objective into practice with the available resources and existing constraints and limitations in the member countries of the Eastern Mediterranean Region is high-lighted