EDITORIAL

Abstract

The Ethiopian Journal of Health Development is a publication of the National Health Development Network of Ethiopia (NHDN-E). Background on the NHDN-E can be found elsewhere in this first issue of the Journal; in brief, it serves as an institutional framework to mobilize, organize, coordinate and strengthen Ethiopia's capabilities to meet the challenge of achieving Health For All by the Year 2000. The Journal is being founded at a very timely moment, since, for the first time since the sanitary revolution of the last century the world appears to be on the brink of another real revolution in health, as witnessed by ideas newly raised in the international arena such as the Economic Order (with all its implications for better health), Health by the People, Primary Health Care and Health For All by the Year 2000