Read e-book online The Third Ten Years of the World Health Organization: PDF

History 1

By S. Litsios

ISBN-10: 9241563664

ISBN-13: 9789241563666

Knowing the background of overall healthiness up to now 60 years is helping us to reply to the wellbeing and fitness demanding situations of this present day. Sharing well-being wisdom encouraged by way of heritage enriches international public wellbeing and fitness and merits society at huge. With those uncomplicated ideas in brain, the worldwide well-being Histories initiative was once proven by means of WHO in overdue 2004, with the purpose of creating a couple of invaluable contributions to this box. This quantity is the 1st book in the initiative.Based virtually completely on guides from that interval, it deals insights into not just the association itself but additionally the political, social and monetary historical past opposed to which many far-reaching future health judgements have been made.This quantity then, displays the 1st 5 of the 'Mahler years', which observed turning out to be aid for the first healthiness care circulate. Thirty years after Alma-Ata, that move is once more a lot in proof; fundamental well-being care is back a WHO precedence, in a renewed, reinvigorated shape.

Show description

Read or Download The Third Ten Years of the World Health Organization: 1968-1978 PDF

Similar history_1 books

New PDF release: Origins: Selected Letters of Charles Darwin, 1822-1859.

Charles Darwin replaced the course of contemporary notion through developing the foundation of evolutionary biology. This interesting number of letters, bargains a glimpse of his day-by-day stories, medical observations, own matters and friendships. starting with a captivating set of letters on the age of twelve, via his college years in Edinburgh and Cambridge as much as the ebook of his most renowned paintings, at the beginning of Species in 1859, those letters chart essentially the most interesting classes of Darwin's existence, together with the voyage of the Beagle and next reviews which led him to advance his idea of typical choice.

Additional resources for The Third Ten Years of the World Health Organization: 1968-1978

Example text

Official records of the World Health Organization, No. 181, Annex 4. Geneva, World Health Organization, 1970. 3. Executive Board, 45th session, summary records (EB45/SR/5). Geneva, World Health Organization, 1970. 4. Report of the Ad Hoc Committee of the Executive Board on method of work of the Health Assembly and of the Executive Board. Official records of the World Health Organization, No. 238, Annex 1. Geneva, World Health Organization, 1977. 5. Official records of the World Health Organization No.

Dr Candau on the occasion of WHO’s Twenty-fifth Anniversary) (1). In 1948, the First World Health Assembly established a programme in which topics were grouped by their importance. Malaria, maternal and child health, tuberculosis, venereal diseases, nutrition and environmental sanitation were assigned ‘top priority’, second priority was given to public health administration, third to parasitic diseases, fourth to virus diseases, fifth to mental health and sixth to other activities. To support work on these priorities, WHO set up advisory services, to be provided by regional organizations in joint actions in the field between governments and WHO.

Because it reinforced his own efforts to reduce non-relevant and non-productive expenditure in WHO .... Secondly, he saw the fixed percentage of 60% as an initial target towards which the Director-General, with the full participation of the Executive Board, should work to strengthen the work of WHO .... ” Shortly after this session of the Health Assembly, the Director-General reported to WHO staff at headquarters on the significance of the resolution (Mahler H. DirectorGeneral’s address on programme budget policy to meeting of senior staff, 8 June 1976, unpublished document).

Download PDF sample

The Third Ten Years of the World Health Organization: 1968-1978 by S. Litsios


by Mark
4.4

Rated 4.62 of 5 – based on 27 votes