The key to achieving the goals of Health for All in the 21st Century (HEALTH21) is the world-wide:
a. cure of communicable disease.
b. technological development of all nations.
c. availability of health care insurance.
d. implementation of primary health care.
ANS: D
The major key to attaining Health for All by the Year 2000 was the worldwide implementation of primary health care; this has extended into the next century with the document HEALTH21. The World Health Assembly in 1977 stated that all citizens of the world should enjoy a level of health that would permit them to lead a socially and economically productive life. Curing com-municable disease, technological developments of all nations, and availability of health care in-surance are not part of the key strategies to achieve the goals of HEALTH21.
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