World Health Organization : Year 1994 ; World Health Organization, Strategy for Health Gsp, No. 94.1: World Health Organization Progress Towards Health for All Statistics of Member States

By World Health Organization

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Title:	World Health Organization : Year 1994 ; World Health Organization, Strategy for Health Gsp, No. 94.1: World Health Organization Progress Towards Health for All Statistics of Member States
Author:	World Health Organization
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Language:	English
Subject:	Health., Public health, Wellness programs
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Publisher:	World Health Organization


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Medical Reference Publication

Excerpt
The World Health Organization, as the directing and coordinating authority on international health, has as one of its primary functions the collection, validation and dissemination of epidemiological, managerial and scientific datalinformation, for the purpose of facilitating health systems development in Member States. In 1977 the Thirtieth World Health Assembly decided that the main social goal of governments and WHO in the coming decades should be the attainment by all people of the world by the year 2000 of a level of health that would permit them to lead a socially and economically productive life. This goal is commonly known as Health for All by the Year 2000 (HFA2000). . When the Member States of the World Health Organization launched the Global Strategy for Health for All by the Year 2000 in 1981, they were aware that they did not possess sufficient knowledge and experience, but that monitoring and evaluation would contribute significantly to the learning process necessary for promoting and supporting relevant action for attaining health-for-all goals. Through a proper collection and analysis of data, it should be possible to identify and launch appropriate ways of accelerating progress towards the achievement of these goals. In the context of monitoring and evaluation of progress in the implementation of national health-for-all strategies, WHO'S Member - States have agreed to provide information periodically on a list of indicators considered to be the essential minimum for global monitoring and evaluation of the Strategy. As they reported on their findings, they also provided data on these global indicators to WHO in 1983, 1985, 1988 and 1991. The list of global indicators was reviewed in 1990 by the WHO Executive Board, which approved a revised list considered to be more meaningful, and new definitions for the indicators where necessary.

Table of Contents
Contents FOREWORD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4 PATTERNS AND TRENDS IN HEALTH STATUS Table 1 Life expectancy at birth: both sexes. male and female (in years) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6 Table 2 Infant mortality rate and under-5 mortality rate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16 Table 3 Maternal mortality rate and percentage of newborns weighing 2 500 g and above . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .26 IMPLEMENTATION OF PRIMARY HEALTH CARE Table 4 Safe water: total. urban and rural (population coverage) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36 Table 5 Adequate excreta-disposal facilities available: total. urban and rural (population coverage) . . . . . .......46 Table 6 Contraceptive prevalence. prenatal care by trained personnel and percentage of women immunized with TT2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .56 Table 7 Delivery care and infant care by trained personnel (% coverage) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .66 Table 8 Immunization: DPT and poliomyelitis (percentage of infants covered) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .76 Table 9 Immunization: measles and tuberculosis (percentage of infants covered) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .86 Table 10 Local health services: total. urban and rural (population coverage) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .96 RESOURCES FOR HEALTH Table 11 Percentage of GNP spent on health (central government expenditure). and percentage of national health expenditure devoted to local health services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .106