Introduction: Health for all and the Ethiopian Journal of Health Development

Abstract

The Regional Director for Africa of the World Health Organization can hardly fail to be most gratified at finding himself among contributors to the first number of the Ethiopian Journal of Health Development.

The title chosen for this review is in itself a guarantee of the mental attitude which founders and editors of the review intend to adopt towards national health problems. For me it is also a source of personal satisfaction to be present at the foundation of a new institution for promoting attainment of the target which WHO's Member States have a set themselves, namely "Health for All by the Year 2000". Our aim is, indeed, to try to achieve that objective organized and achieved in the context of a policy of social justice. While deriving from a social need, health is perceived as a fundamental right of all citizens.