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RECORD NUMBER: 24 OF 27Main Title | The world health report 1998 : life in the 21st century, a vision for all / | |||||||||||
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CORP Author | World Health Organization. | |||||||||||
Publisher | World Health Organization, | |||||||||||
Year Published | 1998 | |||||||||||
OCLC Number | 39274249 | |||||||||||
ISBN | 9241561890; 9789241561891 | |||||||||||
Subjects | World health ; Public health--History ; World Health Organization ; Health Status ; Public Health--trends ; Saude publica ; Saude publica (historia) ; Public Health--trends--Statistics ; World Health--Statistics | |||||||||||
Additional Subjects | World Health Organization | |||||||||||
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Collation | vi, 241 pages : illustrations, maps (some color) ; 26 cm | |||||||||||
Notes | Includes index. |
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Contents Notes | Relates the history of WHO from 1948 to 1998; summarizes trends in mortality and disease since 1955; characterizes health problems faced by various age groups over the past fifty years; discusses the main global trends affecting health; reports on the changes in health systems and health care since the launching of the Health for All strategy at the Alma-Alta Conference in 1978; summarizes health trends since 1948 for each of the six WHO regions; gives examples of global partnerships for health; and considers the health agenda for the twenty-first century. Leading and responding -- Measuring health -- Health across the life span -- Changing world -- Achieving health for all -- WHO worldwide -- Global partnerships for health -- Health agenda for the 21st century. |