WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION
ORGANISATION MONDIALE DE LA SANT~
REGIONAL OFFICE FOR
THE WESTERN PACIFIC
BUREAU REGIONAL DU PACIFIQUE OCCIDENTAL
WPR/RC20/S 14 July 1969 Twentieth Session Manila
23-30 September 1969 Provisional agenda item 12 HEALTH ASPECTS OF POPULATION DYNAMICS
ORIGINAL: ENGLISH
Report 1.
by
the Regional Director
INI'RODUCTION
The Regional Committee, during its nineteenth session. adopted a resolution on the health aspects of population dynamics (WP/HC19.R8) and requested the Regional Director:
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to expand further the regional office acti vi ties in this by
field and to promote the integration of these activities into
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general basic health services prograrmnes when requested govenllllents; (b) to report to the twentieth session of the Regional
Committee on WHO's further activities and plans to assist in this field in the Region." •__ ..-L
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ACTION TAKEN
2.1 Two assistant directors, three regional advisers and two field staff members have participated in training courses on health aspects of human reproduction organized by
WHO Headquarters.
2.2 A regional adviser and three field staff members (a health eduoator, a public health nurse and two publio health administrators) /obtained advanoe •••
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obtained advanced training in their specialties in 1968 and 1969. took. 2.3 The Regional Office will be the host for a four-week which will be held in October 1969. ~nter
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health aspects of family planning were included in the courses they
regienal training course on the health aspects of human reproduction, There will be nineteen partiCipants from the Western Pacific and South East-Asia Regions. 2.4 An inter-countr,y course on the health aspects of population dynamics will be organized by the Regional Office early in 19rO in Manila. 2.5 In the Republic of Korea the WHO-assisted maternal and child gene~l
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health project aims at the strengthening of maternal and child health services, inoluding family planning, as a part of the services, at national, intermediate and looal levels. health Another
important aspect is the s:';rengthening of the maternal and child health and family planning oomponent of existing and future training oourses for medical officers, nurses, midwives and auxl1iar,y staff ~ A new category of multi-purpose staff is being prepared for their duties in maternal and child health and family planning and for specific duties in communicable diseases control by the WHO-assisted education and training project. 2.6 A plan ~f ~peration
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for a maternal and child health services and WHO is providing technical advice.
family planning project in Singapore was signed by the Government, UNICEF and WHO at the end of 1968. UNICEF will provide material assistance, including equipment for maternal and child health oentres, vehioles and health eduoation material in the field of maternal and ohild health and family planning, and equipment for the family planning evaluation oentre. 2.7 In the framework of the UNICEF and WHO-assisted maternal and
ohi1d health projeot in China (Tai\'lan), UNICEF is providing supplies and equipment fo~maternal and child health/family planning aotivities
while WHO gives teohnica1 advioe.
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A request for a fellowship in the health aspeots of family planning This
for a nurse has been reod ved from the Gilbert and Ellioe Islands. is inoluded in the programme and budget estimates for 1971. 2.9 • A.. ,
Western Samoa has requested assistanoe through the Resident
Representati ve of the Un1 ted Nations Development Programme in the South Pacific, in connexion with a study of the feasibility of a family planning programme fully integrated with the maternal and child health funotions of the health servicres. trator to oarry out this study. 2.10 WHO will also partioipate in a Un1ted NationsjUNESCO family planning mission to Malaysia. A medioal offioer with a background 1n obstetrios and gyneoology and speoialized in the eduoation and train1ng of staff will advise on the train1ng of staff in family planning and a health eduoator will assist in the health education aspeots. 3. PLANS FOR THE FUTURE
WHO will partiCipate in a Un1ted
Nations mission to Western Samoa by aSSigning a publio health adminis-
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The preparation of WHO staff in the latest developments in the This train1ng
health aspeots of family planning will be oontinued. other staff. 3.2
programme will inolude medical offioers, nurses, health educators and
Assistanoe in the development of basic health services will be Upon the request of governments, advisory services
oontinued and intensified, with partioular emphasis on the training of national staff. will oontinue to be provided on the health aspeots of family planning and its integration '':nto the general health services.
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Subjeot to the availability of funds, fellowships, seminars,
training oourses and other group eduoational activities in the health aspects of family planning will be arranged.