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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Page vii
... Major disparities also exist in areas such as child mortality . Of the more than 10 million children under 5 years old who die every year , almost all are in developing countries . A world marked by such inequities is in very serious ...
... Major disparities also exist in areas such as child mortality . Of the more than 10 million children under 5 years old who die every year , almost all are in developing countries . A world marked by such inequities is in very serious ...
Page xii
... major trends : slowing of gains and widening health gaps ; and the increasing complexity of the bur- den of disease . The most disturbing sign of deteriorating adult health is that advances in adult survival in Africa have been reversed ...
... major trends : slowing of gains and widening health gaps ; and the increasing complexity of the bur- den of disease . The most disturbing sign of deteriorating adult health is that advances in adult survival in Africa have been reversed ...
Page xiii
... major trends in the HIV epidemic and examines successes and fail- ures in the struggle against the world's most devastating infectious disease , before discussing goals for the coming years . These include narrowing the AIDS outcome gap ...
... major trends in the HIV epidemic and examines successes and fail- ures in the struggle against the world's most devastating infectious disease , before discussing goals for the coming years . These include narrowing the AIDS outcome gap ...
Page xiv
... major international implications for health , economy and trade . Its rapid containment is one of the success stories of public health in recent years and represents a major victory for public health collaboration . SARS is a newly ...
... major international implications for health , economy and trade . Its rapid containment is one of the success stories of public health in recent years and represents a major victory for public health collaboration . SARS is a newly ...
Page xv
... major public health achievement . Chapter Six concludes with an assessment of the rising toll of road deaths and injuries and emphasizes the indirect , but equally important , effects of the growth in road traffic . More than 20 million ...
... major public health achievement . Chapter Six concludes with an assessment of the rising toll of road deaths and injuries and emphasizes the indirect , but equally important , effects of the growth in road traffic . More than 20 million ...
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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