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medicine, the practice concerned with the maintenance of health and the prevention, alleviation, or cure of disease. The World Health Organization at its 1978 international conference held in the Soviet Union produced the Alma-Ata Health Declaration, which was designed to serve governments as a basis for planning health care that would reach people at all levels of society. The declaration reaffirmed that In its widest form, the practice of medicine—that is to say, the promotion and care of health—is concerned with this ideal. It is generally the goal of most countries to have their health services organized in such a ...(100 of 12687 words)

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