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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... capacity . China , for example , has estimated that over 95 % of its costs were borne by the country itself . Even in the poorest countries with virtually non - existent formal health services , such as Somalia , the community absorbs ...
... capacity . China , for example , has estimated that over 95 % of its costs were borne by the country itself . Even in the poorest countries with virtually non - existent formal health services , such as Somalia , the community absorbs ...
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... capacity for health resources , which can rapidly achieve real health outcomes . Although the coordinated international advocacy and resource management of this initiative have been very successful , the most striking aspect of the ...
... capacity for health resources , which can rapidly achieve real health outcomes . Although the coordinated international advocacy and resource management of this initiative have been very successful , the most striking aspect of the ...
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... capacity . Through this mix of strategies and approaches to the gap in human resources for health , it has been possible to reach almost every child in the world with OPV and other interventions ( such as Vitamin A supplementation ) ...
... capacity . Through this mix of strategies and approaches to the gap in human resources for health , it has been possible to reach almost every child in the world with OPV and other interventions ( such as Vitamin A supplementation ) ...
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... capacity to manage such an event should it occur . Consequently , policies will be needed in four areas : polio detection and notification , long - term biocontainment of all poliovirus strains ( that is , wild and vaccine strains ) ...
... capacity to manage such an event should it occur . Consequently , policies will be needed in four areas : polio detection and notification , long - term biocontainment of all poliovirus strains ( that is , wild and vaccine strains ) ...
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... capacity to translate these policies into local guidelines and procedures , while assisting national bureaucracies to " jump start " their implementation . At the sub - national level , national staff were trained or hired to perform ...
... capacity to translate these policies into local guidelines and procedures , while assisting national bureaucracies to " jump start " their implementation . At the sub - national level , national staff were trained or hired to perform ...
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