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Ninth General Programme of Work, 1996-2001, ...
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... . Geneva: World Health Organization.
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... 2. Three types of more specific regional and national disease control targets for the most common health problems will need to be set within the framework of the Ninth General Programme of Work: -- health status targets for reducing mortality, morbidity, disability, and health risks; -- health services targets for good-quality care and services; and -- policy targets for all countries for adopting policies and strategies and implementing action plans in areas that also act as health determinants: living and environmental conditions, behavior favoring health, and health systems.
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... Geneva: World Health Organization. In 1989, the WHO, its governing bodies, and its secretariat decided to take urgent action with respect to the growing worldwide inequities in health status and access to health care.
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... COMMENTARY These two WHO documents bring to this Synthesis two critically important emphases: • A global approach to assessment of health-related matters, target setting for improving health and health services, and establishment of norms or standards for provision of health care services, such that they are equitable and efficient and involve people in their provision and evaluation. • A country-specific approach to building the capacities required to set and implement policies appropriate to health development, particularly for countries in greatest need.
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... The 1995 World Health Assembly approved a conceptual framework and timetable for developing a New Global Health Policy based on equity and solidarity as the pivotal process for renewing WHO's Health for All strategy. In 1995 the World Health Assembly proposed the development of a New Global Health Policy, with the intent of achieving highlevel political endorsement of a global health charter at the World Health Assembly in 1998.
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