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The Declaration of Alma-Ata names healthcare a universal right.

Date: 1978

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This declaration by the World Health Organization (WHO) names healthcare as a universal right, and health as: “a state of complete physical, mental and social wellbeing, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity."