WHO (Contributed by a Transmission Subscriber)
Decided to recommend to the Seventy-sixth World Health Assembly the adoption of the
following resolution:
Recognizing the Declaration of Alma-Ata (1978), which identified primary health care as
“essential health care based on practical, scientifically sound and socially acceptable methods
and technology […] at a cost that the community and country can afford to maintain at every
stage of their development in the spirit of self-reliance and self-determination”, and the
Declaration of Astana (2018) on building sustainable primary health care in accordance with the
call of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development to achieve universal health coverage and
the health-related Sustainable Development Goals, and that diagnostics are important to ensure
quality, comprehensive and integrated primary health care and health services everywhere and
for everyone;
Recognizing that diagnostic services are vital for the prevention, diagnosis, case
management, monitoring and treatment of communicable, noncommunicable, neglected tropical
and rare diseases, injuries and disabilities;
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