By Martha Roberts, Baijayanta Mukhopadhyay, Anne-Emanuelle Birn, Farah Shroff, Smita Pakhale, and Lori Hanson 

As an engaged participant in the 1978 International Conference on Primary Health Care, which issued the Alma-Ata Declaration, Canada affirmed that:

The existing gross inequality in the health status of the people particularly between developed and developing countries as well as within countries is politically, socially and economically unacceptable and is, therefore, of common concern to all countries.

Since that time Canada has had an abiding, if sometimes fraught, connection to the Alma-Ata legacy and the Health for All movement.

Read the full blog from the Health and Human Rights Journal blog series reflecting on 40 years of Alma Ata here: Alma Ata at 40: Insights from Canada