The World Health Report 2003: Shaping the FutureWorld Health Organization, 2003 - 193 pages The World Health Report 2003: Shaping the Futurepredicts that major global health improvements will be achieved in the next few years. Dr Jong-Wook Lee, Director-General of WHO, describes WHO's ambition, to help all people, but especially the poorest among them, to shape a better future. The report advocates a new drive for equitable health improvement as a vital part of global efforts for justice and security. Drawing on lessons of the past, in particular the Health for All movement that was launched 25 years ago, this year's report focuses on the major health gains that are possible in the coming years and shows how WHO and the global health community can achieve these objectives. Against a backdrop of the ambitious targets of the Millennium Development Goals, The World Health Report 2003presents a comprehensive vision encompassing an analysis of today's major health challenges and an action programme for global health improvement. The section on infections singles out for special attention HIV/AIDS, poliomyelitis - whose elimination is within reach - and new infections including SARS. Another important section deals with the health of women and children. The focus of the non-communicable diseases section is on road traffic injuries and the continuing work on tobacco control. In order to achieve the health improvements that are within their grasp, countries need well-functioning health systems. The report shows how systems can be strengthened, combining both primary care facilities and higher-level services linked by an efficient and integrated referral network. In this, as in all its work, WHO renews its commitment to working with countries in responding to national and local health challenges. |
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... Effectively engaging political leaders 60 Finding the funds 63 Finding the people 65 Prospects for a polio - free future 66 Scaling up the delivery of health services 67 Chapter 5 SARS : lessons from a new disease The first cases ...
... Effectively engaging political leaders 60 Finding the funds 63 Finding the people 65 Prospects for a polio - free future 66 Scaling up the delivery of health services 67 Chapter 5 SARS : lessons from a new disease The first cases ...
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... Effective action to improve population health is possible in every country but it takes local knowledge and strength to turn that possibility into reality . We have learnt this through suc- cesses such as controlling the SARS epidemic ...
... Effective action to improve population health is possible in every country but it takes local knowledge and strength to turn that possibility into reality . We have learnt this through suc- cesses such as controlling the SARS epidemic ...
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... effective health promotion and disease prevention services ; and appropriate responses to new threats as they emerge . New threats will include emerging infectious diseases , but also long - term shifts such as the growing bur- den of ...
... effective health promotion and disease prevention services ; and appropriate responses to new threats as they emerge . New threats will include emerging infectious diseases , but also long - term shifts such as the growing bur- den of ...
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... effective in their poorer counterparts , although particular attention is needed to ensure that the benefits flow to the entire population . There is now abundant evidence to initiate effective actions at na- tional and global levels to ...
... effective in their poorer counterparts , although particular attention is needed to ensure that the benefits flow to the entire population . There is now abundant evidence to initiate effective actions at na- tional and global levels to ...
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... effective interventions are urgently and widely adopted . The recognition that globalization of the tobacco epidemic can undermine even the best national control pro- gramme led to the adoption by 192 Member States at the World Health ...
... effective interventions are urgently and widely adopted . The recognition that globalization of the tobacco epidemic can undermine even the best national control pro- gramme led to the adoption by 192 Member States at the World Health ...
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achieve AIDS Annex Table areas burden of disease cancer challenges child mortality developing countries disorders economic effective epidemic epidemiological estimates expenditure on health financing Geneva global burden global health health care systems health information health sector health services health systems health workers healthy life expectancy heart disease high adult High child HIV/AIDS impact implementation improve increase infections interventions Ischaemic heart disease levels low adult high low adult low Low child major malaria maternal MDGs Millennium Development Goals million Mortality stratum noncommunicable diseases outbreak polio eradication poor population poverty prevention primary health primary health care programmes progress public health rates reduce regions Republic respiratory risk factors road traffic injuries SARS September 2003 strategies sub-Saharan Africa surveys targets tion tobacco control treatment tuberculosis Uncertainty 2002 Uncertainty United Nations Western Pacific workforce World Bank World Health Organization