• Fernando Antônio Pires-Alves and Marcos Cueto.
• Departamento de Pesquisa em História das Ciências e da Saúde. Casa de Oswaldo Cruz, Fiocruz. Av. Brasil 4036/405, Manguinhos. 21040-361 Rio de Janeiro RJ Brasil. fpiresalves@gmail.com.
• Cien Saude Colet. 2017 Jul 1; 22 (7): 2135-2144.

AbstractThe paper analyzes formulations in the area of international health at the time of the International Conference on Primary Health Care, held in Alma Ata, Kazakhstan, in 1978. It is set within the context of the broader debate on development and international cooperation throughout the 1970s. Three sets of concepts and prescriptive formulations were examined namely: the New International Economic Order (NIEO), the Dag Hammarskjöld Report (DHR) and the Basic Human Needs Approach (BHN). They were compared with the proposals in documents from the World Health Organization and in the statements from Halfdan Mahler, its director. As a whole, this set of formulations and proposals share a broad spectrum of terms and notions, as well as much of the expectations for change and tensions that existed in the classic period of development during the later years of the post-war era.

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