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 ix
... promotion and disease prevention on the one hand and treatment for acute illness and chronic care on the other . This should be done across all levels of the health care system , with the aim of delivering quality services equitably and ...
... promotion and disease prevention on the one hand and treatment for acute illness and chronic care on the other . This should be done across all levels of the health care system , with the aim of delivering quality services equitably and ...
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... 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 noncommunicable ...
... 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 noncommunicable ...
Page xi
... promoting equitable access to health - enabling conditions . During the last decades of the 20th century , health and security were often separated from each other in national and international debates . Increasingly , however , the ...
... promoting equitable access to health - enabling conditions . During the last decades of the 20th century , health and security were often separated from each other in national and international debates . Increasingly , however , the ...
Page xiv
... promote and protect cardiovascular health through population- based measures that focus on the main risk factors shared by all noncommunicable diseases . The application of existing knowledge has the potential to make a major , rapid ...
... promote and protect cardiovascular health through population- based measures that focus on the main risk factors shared by all noncommunicable diseases . The application of existing knowledge has the potential to make a major , rapid ...
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... promote the use of treated bednets . At the national level , these same data provided an evidence base for a policy change in first - line malaria drug use , and the overall cause - specific mortality burden measured in years of life ...
... promote the use of treated bednets . At the national level , these same data provided an evidence base for a policy change in first - line malaria drug use , and the overall cause - specific mortality burden measured in years of life ...
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