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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... example of AIDS care in resource - poor settings Progress towards polio eradication in the Eastern Mediterranean ... Examples of successful tobacco control strategies 90 94 Box 6.3 Tobacco and the Western Pacific's schoolchildren 96 Box ...
... example of AIDS care in resource - poor settings Progress towards polio eradication in the Eastern Mediterranean ... Examples of successful tobacco control strategies 90 94 Box 6.3 Tobacco and the Western Pacific's schoolchildren 96 Box ...
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... example , the growing security impact of HIV / AIDS . The threat of new infections demands new forms of cooperation between security and public health . As globalization accelerates , the interdependence of nations is perceived clearly ...
... example , the growing security impact of HIV / AIDS . The threat of new infections demands new forms of cooperation between security and public health . As globalization accelerates , the interdependence of nations is perceived clearly ...
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... examples , such as Brazil , where prevention and care have been successfully integrated . The chapter acknowledges that there is still a great deal to be done if the target of three million people on ARV therapy by 2005 is to be met ...
... examples , such as Brazil , where prevention and care have been successfully integrated . The chapter acknowledges that there is still a great deal to be done if the target of three million people on ARV therapy by 2005 is to be met ...
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... example , polio ) , communicable diseases still represent seven out of the top 10 causes of child deaths , and account for about 60 % of all child deaths . Overall , the 10 leading causes represent 86 % of all child deaths ( see Table ...
... example , polio ) , communicable diseases still represent seven out of the top 10 causes of child deaths , and account for about 60 % of all child deaths . Overall , the 10 leading causes represent 86 % of all child deaths ( see Table ...
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... example , the probability of premature adult death in some parts of sub - Saharan Africa is much higher - nearly four times higher - than that observed in low - mortality coun- tries of the Western Pacific Region . Even within developed ...
... example , the probability of premature adult death in some parts of sub - Saharan Africa is much higher - nearly four times higher - than that observed in low - mortality coun- tries of the Western Pacific Region . Even within developed ...
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