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According to the Report by the Director-General to the
109th Session of the WHO Executive Board, WHO priorities
organization-wide for the 2004-2005 biennium include the following 11 areas:
1. Malaria
2. Tuberculosis
3. HIV/AIDS
4. Cancer, cardiovascular disease
and diabetes
5. Tobacco
6. Maternal health
7. Health and environment
8. Food safety
9. Mental health
10. Safe blood
11. Health systems.
Based on the above, the regional office has set the following priorities
for Maldives for the 2004-2005
biennium:
1. Malaria, tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS
2. Dengue fever and dengue haemorrhagic fever
3. Other communicable diseases (filariasis, poliomyelitis and leprosy)
4. Cancer, cardiovascular diseases,
diabetes, oral health, blindness and deafness, injuries and suicide)
5. Tobacco in all forms
6. Maternal, adolescent and child
health
7. Food safety
8. Nutrition
9. Mental health and substance abuse
10. Safe blood
11. Environmental health risks
12. Essential drugs and drug safety
13. Health systems
14. Health education, health
promotion and sports
15. Human resources for health
16. Health and environment.
The WHO Country Cooperation Strategy (CCS) Mission Team to Maldives from 28 May to 1 June 2000, identified the following
priority areas for WHO collaboration at the national level for the period
2002-2005:
1. Inadequate human resources
for health
2. Increased public demand in
health service delivery
3. High maternal mortality rate
4. Environmental
health
5. Nutrition
6. Food safety
7. Increased burden of diseases
8. Health promotion
9. Development of health sector
reforms
1. Inadequate Human
Resources for Health
The country’s priority in developing adequate human resources for
health offers WHO a window of opportunity to collaborate in the implementation
and follow-up of HRH master plan, including research on HRH policy, auditing,
and staff development training programmes in appropriate technology with
standard curriculum development for health vision 2020.
2. Increased Public Demands on Health Service Delivery
The country’s priority in the
deliveries of health service to all offers an opportunity for WHO to
collaborate in the development of a national policy on health care
delivery, including production of equity guidelines, and defining indicators
for monitoring and evaluation.
3. High Maternal Mortality Rate
The country’s priority in
strengthening and expansion of comprehensive maternal health services provides
an opportunity for WHO to collaborate in the
collection of evidence-based data on safe pregnancy, evaluation of health
workers, and development of guidelines for risk reduction and reduction of
maternal mortality.
4. Environmental Health
The country’s priority to promote
environmental health awareness and environmental health monitoring offers a
window of opportunity for WHO to collaborate in the surveillance for health
impacts due to environmental hazards in all settings, integrated vector
control, research on environmental risk factors, and development of
guidelines and standards on safe drinking water and waste disposal.
5. Nutrition
The country’s priorities in food security, breast-feeding, health of
pregnant mothers, use of iodized salt, deworming
and micronutrients harmonise well with WHO’s normative role to support
updating of the national policy on nutrition, survey of malnutrition,
monitoring growth charts, and developing indicators for malnutrition.
6. Food Safety
The country’s priorities in sustaining food safety, development of
food legislation, development of food standards, infrastructure and capacity
building offers an opportunity for WHO to assist the country in the survey of
food safety, support formulation of food legislation, facilitate development
of national standards and quality assurance, and train staff in food safety
practice and monitoring.
7. Increased Burden of Diseases
The country’s priorities in intensified epidemiological and
entomological surveillance to reduce morbidity and mortality, and efforts in
IEC and community participation in disease control, fits in with WHO
strategic directions of reduction of disease morbidity and mortality, and
opportunities exist for WHO to extend its core functions in assisting in the formulation
of a policy on emerging/re-emerging diseases, support integrated control of
priority diseases, train nationals in standard case definition and indicators
for disease surveillance, and render assistance in the surveillance of risk
factors for diseases.
8. Health Promotion
The country’s priority for including health promotion in all health
programmes in different settings and targeting decision/policy- makers and
professional groups offer WHO a potential role to support planned activities
based on the Jakarta and Mexico Declarations, and promote sustainable
development of health programmes through advocacy and research on KABP
survey.
9. Development of Health Sector Reform
The country’s priorities in the health vision 2020 concept, health
care financing, health insurance, review of management and administration
offers WHO a potential role to support policy relevant to four strategic
directions and six core functions, and promote appropriate technologies to
implement health sector reforms in the country.
The current WHO Country Programme, or Work Plans for 2002-2003, were formulated based on the above CCS guidelines, taking
into account the WHO regional as well as global priorities. The work plans include the following 15
Areas of Work:
1. Communicable Disease
Surveillance
2. Tuberculosis
3. Surveillance,
Prevention and Management of Non communicable Diseases
4. Health Promotion
5. Disability/Injury
Prevention and Rehabilitation
6. Mental Health and
Substance Abuse
7. Child and Adolescent
Health
8. Making Pregnancy Safer
9. HIV/AIDS
10. Health and Environment
11. Food Safety
12. Essential Medicines:
Access, Quality and Rational Use
13. Blood Safety and
Clinical Technology
14. Evidence for Health
Policy
15. Organization of Health
Services
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