The single most important international organisation that plays a role in the health policy of the developing countries is the World Health Organisation. In the year 1978, a landmark for WHO because of the Declaration it made in Alma Ata, it acknowledged and incorporated the significance of public health as the necessary perspective of health policy worldwide. As part of the Alma Ata Declaration, there was recognition that traditional medicine can play a worthwhile role in improving the health care of a majority of people in the world.
The New WHO Policy: Towards a Global Consensus?
by , WHO Traditional Medicine Strategy 2002-2005, 01 January, 2005