Renewing the strategy for health for all: report of the Sub-Committee, part II (Resolution)

28 REGIONAL COMMITIEE: FORTY-SEVENTH SESSION 6. REQUESTS the Regional Director: (I) to work closely with countries to establish national certification committees and the subregional certification committee for Pacific islands, and to improve the quality of surveillance and laboratory systems to the level required for certification; (2) to facilitate the exchange of information and coordination of poliomyelitis eradication efforts with other WHO regions; (3) to continue to use the expertise and systems developed for poliomyelitis eradication for the control of other vaccine-preventable diseases, including accelerated measles control. Eighth Meeting, 13 September 1996 WPRlRC47/SRl8 WPRlRC47.R8 COUNTRY VISITS: REPORT OF THE SUB-COMMITIEE, PART I The Regional Committee, Having considered the report of the Sub-Committee of the Regional Committee on Programmes and Technical Cooperation on its visits to New Zealand and Viet Nam to review WHO's collaboration in the area of health systems reform; I Recognizing the value of the work of the Sub-Committee to Member States; I. ENDORSES the recommendations in the report on country visits of the Sub-Committee; 2. THANKS the Sub-Committee for its work; 3. REQUESTS the Sub-Committee, as part of its terms of reference in 1997, to review and analyse the impact of WHO's cooperation with Member States in the field of new, emerging and re- emerging diseases; 4. DECIDES that the countries to be visited in connection with the review should be Cambodia and Vanuatu. Eighth Meeting, 13 September 1996 WPRlRC47/SRl8 WPRlRC47.R9 RENEWING THE STRATEGY FOR HEALTH FOR ALL: REPORT OF THE SUB-COMMITIEE, PART II The Regional Committee, Having considered the Report2 of the Sub-Committee of the Regional Committee on Programmes and Technical Cooperation, Palt II. on renewing the strategy for health for all; I. ENDORSES the report of the Sub-Committee; I Documenl WPRlRC47/9 Rev. I. 1 Document WPRlRC47/10. 28 REGIONAL COMMITIEE: FORTY-SEVENTH SESSION 6. REQUESTS the Regional Director: (I) to work closely with countries to establish national certification committees and the subregional certification committee for Pacific islands, and to improve the quality of surveillance and laboratory systems to the level required for certification; (2) to facilitate the exchange of information and coordination of poliomyelitis eradication efforts with other WHO regions; (3) to continue to use the expertise and systems developed for poliomyelitis eradication for the control of other vaccine-preventable diseases, including accelerated measles control. Eighth Meeting, 13 September 1996 WPRlRC47/SRl8 WPRlRC47.R8 COUNTRY VISITS: REPORT OF THE SUB-COMMITIEE, PART I The Regional Committee, Having considered the report of the Sub-Committee of the Regional Committee on Programmes and Technical Cooperation on its visits to New Zealand and Viet Nam to review WHO's collaboration in the area of health systems reform; I Recognizing the value of the work of the Sub-Committee to Member States; I. ENDORSES the recommendations in the report on country visits of the Sub-Committee; 2. THANKS the Sub-Committee for its work; 3. REQUESTS the Sub-Committee, as part of its terms of reference in 1997, to review and analyse the impact of WHO's cooperation with Member States in the field of new, emerging and re- emerging diseases; 4. DECIDES that the countries to be visited in connection with the review should be Cambodia and Vanuatu. Eighth Meeting, 13 September 1996 WPRlRC47/SRl8 WPRlRC47.R9 RENEWING THE STRATEGY FOR HEALTH FOR ALL: REPORT OF THE SUB-COMMITIEE, PART II The Regional Committee, Having considered the Report2 of the Sub-Committee of the Regional Committee on Programmes and Technical Cooperation, Palt II. on renewing the strategy for health for all; I. ENDORSES the report of the Sub-Committee; I Documenl WPRlRC47/9 Rev. I. 1 Document WPRlRC47/10. REPORT OF THE REGIONAL COMMITTEE 29 2. URGES Member States: (I) to participate actively in the third evaluation of the implementation of the strategy for health for all in 1997; (2) to work closely with other Member States and WHO in the renewal of the strategy for health for all that will direct health policies into the 21 st century; 3. REQUESTS the Regional Director: (I) to ensure that the third evaluation of the implementation of the strategy for health for all is effectively accomplished and related to the renewal of the strategy for health for all; (2) to provide technical support to Member States as required; (3) to report to the Regional Committee at its forty-eighth session on the renewal of the health-for-all strategy for the 21 st century. Eighth Meeting, 13 September 1996 WPRlRC47/SRlS WPRlRC47.RIO WHO RESPONSE TO GLOBAL CHANGE: REPORT OF THE SUB-COMMITTEE, PART III The Regional (ommittee, Noting the rep0rt of the Sub-Committee of the Regional Committee on Programmes and Technical Cooperation. Part Ill: WHO response to global change; I Recognizing tlie need to continue reform of the Organization and to ensure WHO's leadership in health; Supporting the multisectoral approach to solving health problems; Appreciating tile changes that have already taken place in the Region as part of the ongoing reform processes in the work of the Organization: Welcoming the continuing review of the work of the Organization; I. ENDORSES the recommendations of the Sub-Committee; 2. ENCOURAGES the process of constitutional review as laid down by the World Health Assembly resolution WHA4S.14 and Executive Board decision EB97( II); 3. EMPHASIZES the value of the Sub-Committee as a working body of the Regional Committee, and of the country visits for information gathering and exchange of experiences among countries of the Region, and of evaluating tf)e impact of WHO's cooperation with Member States in relation to the implementation of the regioml strategies for health for all; I Documents WPR/RC47/11 and WPRlRC47/11 Add. I.