The Declaration of Alma Ata by the World Health Organization ...

[jeatrice]

The Declaration of Alma Ata by the World Health Organization (WHO) became known by the slogan, Health for All by the Year 2000.. According to WHO, health is defined as:
 
  1. A state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being
  2. Whatever a nation defines it as for its own people
  3. The absence of disease or infirmity
  4. Engagement in primary health care instead of cure-based care

Question 2

Needle stick legislation passed by Congress that became law on November 6, 2000, caused OSHA to revise its Bloodborne Pathogen Standards. This act clarified the role of employers to:
 
  1. Use Universal Precautions when dealing with all patients
  2. Select safer needle devices as they became available
  3. Provide needle disposal boxes
  4. Incinerate all infectious waste including needles

[honnalora]

Answer to Question 1

1
WHO defines health as a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being.

Answer to Question 2

2
Health care facilities by law have to select safer needle devices and involve employees in identi-fying and choosing the devices.