World Health Organization and Traditional Medicine

(...) The Resolution WHA29.72 (1976) requested to the Director-general to encourage the development of health teams trained, including health workers for PHC, and “taking into account, “the man power reserve constituted by those practicing TM” [5].

A “social contract in health” was established in 1977, according to Dr. Halfdan Mahler, former Director-general of WHO: the Resolution WHA30.43 decided that: “the main social target of governments and WHO in the coming decades should be the attainment by all the citizens of the world by the year 2000 of a level of health that will permit them to lead a socially and economically productive life.

In 1979, the World Health Assembly WHA 32.30 unanimously endorsed the Alma-Ata Declaration (1978) and adopted the “Heath for All” as the priority for the international organism; the UN General Assembly (Res 34/58) also endorsed the strategy, one year later (...)