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class='MsoNormal'> The People's Charter for Health that was formulated and endorsed at the five-day gathering soon became the common tool of a worldwide citizen's movement committed to making the Alma-Ata dream a reality. On the thirtieth anniversary of the Declaration of Alma-Ata in 2008, the People's Health Movement again reiterated its call for ‘Health for All Now!', while the Ouagadougou Declaration on Primary Health Care was issued in Africa in April 2008, also calling for a renewal of the Principles of Primary Health Care and its implementation in developing countries by the international community.

A further impetus was given to the concept of PHC by the publication of three prominent reports in 2008; the WHO's World Health Report 2008 (titled: ‘Primary Health Care: Now More Than Ever'), the WHO's Commission on the Social Determinants of Health (CSDH) (titled ‘Closing the Gap in a Generation'), and the Global Health Watch II (written by a collective of civil society and health professionals that analyse the structural causes of ill health).

Of these, the previously mentioned CSDH report is of particular note. Although media coverage of the report was minimal, some health policy analysts described the findings as little short of revolutionary. The Commission - set up in 2005 by the WHO to address the social factors leading to ill health - stated that 'deep inequities in the distribution of power and economic arrangements, globally, are of key relevance to health equity.' In an entire section headed 'Tackle the Inequitable Distribution of Power, Money, and Resources', the final report identified these factors as the key 'structural drivers of the conditions of daily life'. The fact that a majority of people in the world do not enjoy the good health that is biologically possible, it states, is by no means inevitable but the result of a 'toxic combination of bad policies, economics, and politics'. A fairer sharing of world resources is thus, in no uncertain terms, taken as the starting point for addressing inequities in health as well as all other aspects of human development.

In a stinging critique of globalisation, trade liberalisation, market integration, and multilateral organisations such as the IMF, World Bank and WTO, the CSDH report goes a long way towards defining a new international economic order - despite specifically stating that such a task was beyond its remit. Significantly, the report in its final chapter recognises that its ambitious agenda is dependent upon a 'global movement for change', involving not only the World Health Organisation, global leaders and country partners, but also civil society as 'powerful protagonists in the global health equity agenda.'

While the issue of healthcare again grabs news headlines with the national reforms proposed by President Barack Obama in the United States, demand for a renewal of primary health care based on equality is silently gaining renewed attention amongst policymakers. For the WHO to fulfil its mandate and live up to the bold analysis in its CSDH report, civil society organisatio本论文由英语论文网提供整理，提供论文代写，英语论文代写，代写论文，代写英语论文，代写留学生论文，代写英文论文，留学生论文代写相关核心关键词搜索。