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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... millions of children today , particularly in Africa , the biggest health challenge is to survive until their fifth birthday , and their chances of doing so are less than they were a decade ago . This is a result of the continuing impact ...
... millions of children today , particularly in Africa , the biggest health challenge is to survive until their fifth birthday , and their chances of doing so are less than they were a decade ago . This is a result of the continuing impact ...
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... millions of people scrape a living from the dust of poverty , that the price of being poor can be most starkly seen ... million African children died . Those who do make it past childhood are confronted with adult death rates that ...
... millions of people scrape a living from the dust of poverty , that the price of being poor can be most starkly seen ... million African children died . Those who do make it past childhood are confronted with adult death rates that ...
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... million people died in 2002 , 10.5 million ( or nearly 20 % ) of whom were children of less than 5 years of age ( see Figure 1.2 ) . Of these child deaths , 98 % occurred in developing Figure 1.1 Life expectancy at birth : developed and ...
... million people died in 2002 , 10.5 million ( or nearly 20 % ) of whom were children of less than 5 years of age ( see Figure 1.2 ) . Of these child deaths , 98 % occurred in developing Figure 1.1 Life expectancy at birth : developed and ...
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... million children under 5 years of age still die every year in the world , progress has been made since 1970 , when the figure was more than 17 million . These reductions did not take place uniformly across time and regions , but the ...
... million children under 5 years of age still die every year in the world , progress has been made since 1970 , when the figure was more than 17 million . These reductions did not take place uniformly across time and regions , but the ...
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... million deaths in 1990 to about 1.6 million deaths in 2002 , now accounting for 15 % of all child deaths . There has also been a modest decline in deaths from measles , although more than half a million children under 5 years of age ...
... million deaths in 1990 to about 1.6 million deaths in 2002 , now accounting for 15 % of all child deaths . There has also been a modest decline in deaths from measles , although more than half a million children under 5 years of age ...
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