Halfdan Mahler

Architect and Defender of the World Health Organization “Health for All by 2000” Declaration of 1978

Bibliographic Data

ID11027296
AuthorsTerry M Brown (0009-0003-9101-1302, University of Rochester), Theodore M Brown (Theodore M. Brown is with the Departments of History and Public Health Sciences, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY. Elizabeth Fee is with the History of Medicine Division, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD. Victoria Stepanova is an undergraduate student at the University of Rochester.), Elizabeth Fee (Theodore M. Brown is with the Departments of History and Public Health Sciences, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY. Elizabeth Fee is with the History of Medicine Division, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD. Victoria Stepanova is an undergraduate student at the University of Rochester.), Victoria Stepanova (0009-0002-9642-9911, Theodore M. Brown is with the Departments of History and Public Health Sciences, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY. Elizabeth Fee is with the History of Medicine Division, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD. Victoria Stepanova is an undergraduate student at the University of Rochester.)
Year2016
Volume106
Issue1
Pages38-39
Publication date2016-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmerican Journal of Public Health (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0090-0036 • E-ISSN: 1541-0048
PublisherAmerican Public Health Association (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2105/ajph.2015.302935
PMID26562105
OpenAlexW2180861441
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited4

The article discusses the life of Danish Dr. Halfdan Mahler who also served as the Secretary-General of the World Organization (WHO), and it mentions Mahler's work involving the Declaration of Alma-Ata in September 1978 in which the WHO, the United Nations Children's Fund, and 134 signatory nations declared the Health for All by 2000 goal. Social justice and global public health history are examined, along with health care accessibility and the attitudes of health activists

Criminology · Danish · Declaration · Economic Justice · Global health · Health care · Political science · Public health · Social justice · Sociology · Global Health and Surgery · Global Health Workforce Issues · Global Maternal and Child Health · Law · Medicine · Nursing · Public Administration

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