title: 1978: a good year, but a vintage past its best.
abstract: This article is intended to stimulate debate. Where does public health planning in developing countries need to go if it is to focus on the challenges of meeting the health needs of the poor and increasing the accountability and performance of health services? The article concludes that Alma Ata vintage public health planning has frozen many health ministries in a non-monetarised world. The effects, are systematic obstacles to using many technologies available in other sectors to improve accountability and performance through better business planning and control. High time for an Alma Ata II Conference.
authors.affiliation: grantrhodes@hotmail.com
authors.forename: Grant
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Rhodes
mesh_terms: D003906:Developing Countries; D004534:Egypt; D018166:Health Care Reform; D006285:Health Planning; D006291:Health Policy; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand; D006801:Humans; D011203:Poverty; D011634:Public Health; D012941:Social Responsibility