Regional coordinating group on the mental health programme (Resolution)

REPORT OF THE REGIONAL COMMITTEE (8) organize a meeting between the most appropriate individuals in Member States holding posts equivalent to that of director or leader of a national medical research council; 4. REQUESTS the Regional Director to tmplement the above-mentioned recommendations; 27 5. AUTHORIZES the Regional Director, should additional funds be forthcoming, to allocate them, with the concurrence of the Western Pacific Advisory Committee on Medical Research, to research activities which conform to the objectives of the regional programme, reporting on their use to the subsequent session of the Regional Committee; 6. REQUESTS Member States to: (1) establish appropriate codes and regulatory mechanisms to ensure that medical research is conducted according to ethical principles; (2) provide career structures which permit research workers to devote their ttme fully to research and which attract young workers. WPR/RC29 • RII Seventh meeting, 24 August 1978 SPECIAL PROGRAMME FOR RESEARCH AND TRAINING IN TROPICAL DISEASES: JOINT COORDINATING BOARD The Regional Committee, In accordance with the Memorandum of Understanding on the Advministrative and Technical Structures of the Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases,l SELECTS as the two Member States of the WHO Western Pacific Region whose representatives shall be members of the Joint Coordinating Board, the Philippines, for a period of two years up to 31 December 1979 and Malaysia, for a period of three years up to 31 December 1980, commencing on I January 1978. WPR/RC29.R12 Seventh meeting, 24 August 1978 REGIONAL COORDINATING GROUP ON THE MENTAL HEALTH PROGRAMME The Regional Committee, Realizing the growing world-wide concern for problems of mental health, not least the importance of psychosocial factors in relation to health as expressed in resolutions WHA27.53 and WHA29.2l; lDocument WPR/RC29/12 and Add.l. 28 REGIONA I. C(JMMlITEE: TWENTY -NINTH SESS ION Noting with satisfaction the broad emphasis on social relevance in the regional mental health programme and the steps already taken towards implementing that programme; Recognizing the immense impact on health experienced throughout the Region as a result of rapidly changing life styles and value systems; Recognizing further the need to ensure that mental health programmes at national and regional levels are coherent, socially relevant and better coordinated; 1. URGES Member States to formulate or review, as necessary, mental health policies within overall health policies; consider establishing national coordinating mechanisms for mental health programmes; and intensify collaboration with WHO; 2. REQUESTS the Regional Director to establish a coordinating group for the regional mental health programme in order to strengthen and facilitate collaboration with the global coordinating group as well as with Member States; 3. AUTHORIZES the Regional Director to appoint the members of the coordinating group and convene meetings of the group as and when necessary. Seventh meeting, 24 August 1978 WPR/RC29.R13 ANTIMALARIA PROGlWIME The Regional Committee, Baving considered the information presented by the Regional Director on the current status of the antima1aria programme in the Western Pacific Region;l Noting with concern that in several countries or areas of the Region the programme has lost momentum dur.ing recent years and in some has even shown signs of deterioration; 1. URGES Member States to: (1) continue, and where necessary strengthen, the support given to the antimalaria drive in order to improve the epidemiological situation, particularly among underprivileged groups in remote rural areas; (2) assign priority, in the accelerated development of a genuinely effective integrated rural health infrastructure that reaches the periphery, to the more malarious regions and, ,towards this goal, solicit the cooperation of other agencies involved in rural development; lDocument WPR/RC29/14.