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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... ensuring that they are present in poor and rural communities . Ensuring that all women and their newborn babies have access to quality skilled care , including antenatal care ; birth care ; obstetric emer- gency care ; postpartum care ...
... ensuring that they are present in poor and rural communities . Ensuring that all women and their newborn babies have access to quality skilled care , including antenatal care ; birth care ; obstetric emer- gency care ; postpartum care ...
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... ensure relevance ( and ownership ) . If standardized indicators are used , there is no reason , in principle , why countries should not be able to report on their own as well as international targets ; as with the MDGs , timed ...
... ensure relevance ( and ownership ) . If standardized indicators are used , there is no reason , in principle , why countries should not be able to report on their own as well as international targets ; as with the MDGs , timed ...
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... ensuring that these medicines are of acceptable quality will become the basis for increasing procurement volumes ( 18 ) . A pilot system was started by WHO in collaboration with other United Nations organizations ( UNICEF , UNFPA and ...
... ensuring that these medicines are of acceptable quality will become the basis for increasing procurement volumes ( 18 ) . A pilot system was started by WHO in collaboration with other United Nations organizations ( UNICEF , UNFPA and ...
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... ensure that deprived groups share fully in progress to- wards the health - related MDGs ( by , for example , ensuring that the percentage improvement in conditions among people below a country's poverty line is at least as large as the ...
... ensure that deprived groups share fully in progress to- wards the health - related MDGs ( by , for example , ensuring that the percentage improvement in conditions among people below a country's poverty line is at least as large as the ...
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... ensure the survival of children and to strengthen the health infrastructure needed for gains toward the MDGs and other health objectives . Chapter 1 confirmed HIV / AIDS as the leading cause of death among young adults . This chapter ...
... ensure the survival of children and to strengthen the health infrastructure needed for gains toward the MDGs and other health objectives . Chapter 1 confirmed HIV / AIDS as the leading cause of death among young adults . This chapter ...
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achieve adult high adult adult low adult adult mortality AIDS Annex Table areas burden of disease cancer challenges child deaths child mortality developing countries disorders economic effective epidemic estimates Europe expenditure on health financing Geneva global health health care systems health information health sector health services health systems health workers health-related healthy life expectancy heart disease High child HIV/AIDS impact implementation improve increase infections interventions Ischaemic heart disease levels low adult high Low child 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 reduce Republic respiratory risk factors road traffic injuries SARS September 2003 strategies sub-Saharan Africa surveys targets tion tobacco control treatment tuberculosis United Nations Western Pacific workforce World Bank World Health Organization