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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... initiative has also started on prequalification of malaria and tuberculosis medicines and is making considerable progress . Three principles will guide WHO's work in relation to the. Millennium Health Goals : paths to the future 35 ...
... initiative has also started on prequalification of malaria and tuberculosis medicines and is making considerable progress . Three principles will guide WHO's work in relation to the. Millennium Health Goals : paths to the future 35 ...
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... initiatives follow up the initial preventive intervention with ARV treatment for HIV - positive mothers , when clini- cally indicated , allowing women not only to give birth to healthy babies but also to live to raise them ( 20 ) ...
... initiatives follow up the initial preventive intervention with ARV treatment for HIV - positive mothers , when clini- cally indicated , allowing women not only to give birth to healthy babies but also to live to raise them ( 20 ) ...
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... Initiative " relies on community health workers called accompagnateurs who pay daily visits to patients in their home villages . The accompagnateurs ( some of whom are themselves living with HIV ) are not so much providing directly ...
... Initiative " relies on community health workers called accompagnateurs who pay daily visits to patients in their home villages . The accompagnateurs ( some of whom are themselves living with HIV ) are not so much providing directly ...
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... initiatives is channelled to civil society groups , especially community - based organizations run by and for people living with HIV / AIDS . Dimensions of good HIV / AIDS control Although equity is the only acceptable end goal , it is ...
... initiatives is channelled to civil society groups , especially community - based organizations run by and for people living with HIV / AIDS . Dimensions of good HIV / AIDS control Although equity is the only acceptable end goal , it is ...
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... initiatives of the past . Fifty years ago , who could have imagined a polio - free world ? Yet that reality now seems to be only a few years away . The Global Polio Eradication Initiative is the subject of Chapter 4 . References 1 ...
... initiatives of the past . Fifty years ago , who could have imagined a polio - free world ? Yet that reality now seems to be only a few years away . The Global Polio Eradication Initiative is the subject of Chapter 4 . References 1 ...
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