World Health Organization : World Health Forum, 1981 ; Volume 2 No. 2, Year 1981: Health for All by the Year 2000 as Revolutionary Concept

By Comlan A. A. Quenum

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Title:	World Health Organization : World Health Forum, 1981 ; Volume 2 No. 2, Year 1981: Health for All by the Year 2000 as Revolutionary Concept
Author:	Comlan A. A. Quenum
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Language:	English
Subject:	Health., Public health, Wellness programs
Collections:	Medical Library Collection, World Health Collection
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Publisher:	World Health Organization


Citation APA MLA Chicago A. A. Quenum, Dr, B. C. (n.d.). World Health Organization : World Health Forum, 1981 ; Volume 2 No. 2, Year 1981. Retrieved from http://www.self.gutenberg.org/

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I can hardly count how often I have heard honest people declare, in all good faith, that the idea of health for all by the year zooo is not as revolutionary as we pretend. Some of them refer to Article I of the WHO Constitution, which mentions as its sole objective the attainment by all peoples of the highest possible level of health, to justify ironic comments on those who think the ideal of health for all by the year 2000 is revolutionary. According to them, that is a flagrant case of terminological inexactitude. The fixing of a target date for completing the task of providing health care for all does not appear to them sufficient justification for attributing an unreal revolutionary character to an objective which they find sound and practicaL2 And yet having the courage to speak of health for all by the year 2000 definitely does involve a revolutionary idea.

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EDITORIAL. Health for all by the year 2000 as a revolutionary concept Comlan A. A. Quenum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .165 Bangladesh: fanning for health M. R. C oudbury . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .167 Target Health 2000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .174 R O W TABLE Self-care in health: potentials and pitfalls Lowell S. Levin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .177 Self-help grou s in primary health care David Ro1 in son . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .185 Discussion: E. Maurice Backett, Armando Cordera, Abdullahi Deria, Antonio Garcia Erazo, M. G. Garg, Ilona Kickbusch, Carlos Martini, E. N. Mensah, Arcadio A. Tandez . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .191 PRIMARY HEALTH CARE Sociopolitical constraints on primary health care: a case study from Java Glen Williams & Satoto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .202 Schoolchildren as health leaders in the family V R. Bhalerao . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .209 Lay reporting of health information K.Kupka . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .211 Primary health care in rural India V Jagdish. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .218 Assessing health status in remote villages in Thailand Charas Suwanwela, Vichai Poshyachinda, Prida l%asanapradit, & Ayut Dharmkrong-At . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .222