I received this message from Bob Hata via the TDR-newsgroup recently and think
that it might be of interest to some of you.
Sincerely
Christoph Grevelding
Folks,
The 50th session of the World Health Assembly is just over. I learned
of the Web appearance of a great number of WHO policy documents,
including WHO Constitution, Executive Board and Assembly documents...
An example of the emerging products of the WHO Management Information
System (WHO/MIS)! The URL is:
http://who_hq_policy.who.ch/en/policy3.htm
FYI...
Bob Hata (hatak at who.ch)
Internetworking Manager, TDR/WHO
WHO Policy
The WHO Policy information retrieval system has been established
as one of the core modules of the WHO Management Information
System (WHO/MIS). It provides access to WHO policies and related
documents . It is a full text retrieval system allowing the user
to navigate and search through the various "infobases".
To view and query an infobase, or conduct a query on several
infobases, please click one of the below.
[Basic documents]
Basic Documents
Contains essential documents of the World Health
Organization, including the Constitution, Rules of
Procedure of the World Health Assembly and of the
Executive Board, Regulations for Expert Advisory Panels
and Committees and for Study and Scientific Groups, and
Financial and Staff Regulations. Updated to 31 October
1996, it also includes the Convention on the Privileges
and Immunities of the Specialized Agencies, agreements
with the United Nations and with other agencies, and the
principles governing relations with nongovernmental
organizations. A list of members and associate members of
WHO and the Statute of the International Agency for
Research on Cancer are appended.
* WHO Constitution
* WHO Members
[Executive board]
Executive Board Resolutions and Decisions (Sessions 1 to 99)
Infobase EB. This infobase contains all the resolutions
and decisions of the Executive Board sessions since 1948.
Executive Board Documents
* Session 97 - January 1996
Infobase EB97. This infobase contains all the documents
of the Executive Board session 97 (January 1996) as
presented "in session". It includes EB, Information and
miscellaneous documents.
* Session 98 - May 1996
Infobase EB98. This infobase contains all the documents
of the Executive Board session 98 (May 1996) as presented
"in session". It includes EB and Information documents.
* Session 99 - January 1997
Infobase EB99. This infobase contains all the documents
of the Executive Board session 99 (January 1997) as
presented "in session". It includes EB, Information and
miscellaneous documents, Resolutions, Conference Papers.
Executive Board Official Records
* Session 97 - January 1996
Infobase EB97REC. This infobase contains the Official
Records of the Executive Board session 97 (January 1996)
as published in the in the WHO Official publications
EB97/1996/REC/1 and REC/3 publications. It includes
Resolutions and Decisions, Annexes and Summary records.
* Session 98 - May 1996
Infobase EB98REC. This infobase contains the Official
Records of the Executive Board session 98 (May 1996) as
published in the in the WHO Official publication
EB98/1996/REC/1. It includes Decisions, Annexes and
Summary Records of Committees.
[World Health Assembly]
World Health Assembly Resolutions and Decisions (Sessions 1 to 49)
Infobase WHA. This infobase contains all the resolutions
and decisions of the World Health Assembly sessions since
1948.
World Health Assembly Documents
* Session 49 - May 1996
Infobase WHA49. This infobase contains all the documents
of the World Health Assembly session 49 (May 1996) as
presented "in session". It includes Assembly,
Information, miscellaneous documents and resolutions.
World Health Assembly Official Records
* Session 49 - May 1996
Infobase WHA49REC. This infobase contains the Official
Records of the World Health Assembly session 49 (May
1996) as published in the WHO Official publications
WHA49/1996/REC/1 and REC/3. It includes Resolutions and
Decisions, Annexes, Summary records and Reports of
[Programme budget]
Programme Budget (1996-1997)
Proposed Programme Budget (1998-1999)
[Health for All]
Alma-Ata 1978 - Primary Health Care
Report of the International Conference on Primary Health
Care, Alma-Ata in 1978 and Declaration of Alma-Ata.
Global Strategy for Health for All by the Year 2000 Global Strategy
for Health for All by the Year 2000 launched by the 32th World
Health assembly in 1979, based on the Alma-Ata report and
Declaration.
Plan of Action for Implementating the Global Strategy for Health
for All
Plan of Action for implementing the Global Strategy for
Health for All by the Year 2000 approved by the 35th
World Health assembly in 1982.
Ninth General Programme of Work
Ninth general programme of Work, covering the period
1996-2001. It defines the policy framework for world
action and sets the framework for Programme development
and management for WHO itself.
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
* International Health Regulations
International Health Regulations adopted by the 22nd
World Health Assembly (WHA) in 1969 and amended by the 26
WHA in 1973 and the 34th WHA in 1981. The document
represents the text of the International Health
Regulations in force as of 1 January 1982.
[Regional committees]
RC for AFRO
Resolutions and decisions of the Regional Committee for
the Africa, for the forty-fifth and forty-sixth sessions.
RC for AMRO - Resolutions (1996)
* Policy documents on the Web site of the AMRO/PAHO
* Resolutions of the thirty-ninth meeting of the Directing
Council (September 1996)
RC for EURO
* Resolutions on the EURO Web site
* Resolutions and decisions of the Regional Committee for
Europe. Includes sessions 34 to 46 (1984- 1996), presented by
sessions
* Handbook of resolutions and decisions of the Regional
Committee for Europe Volume II Ccovering the period 1988-1994.
The structure of the Volume II is aligned with the 1991 update
of the document Health for all targets: Health Policy for
Europe.
RC for EMRO - Resolutions and Decisions of Sessions 40 to 43
Resolutions and decisions of the Regional Committee for
the Eastern Mediterranean, presented by sessions.
Includes sessions 40 to 43 covering the period 1992-1995.
RC for SEARO - Handbook of Resolutions (1976-1995)
Volume II of the Handbook of resolutions and decisions of
the WHO Regional Committee for South- East Asia. Includes
sessions 29th to 48th covering the period 1976-1995. The
structure of Volume II follows a subject classification.
RC for WPRO
* Handbook of Resolutions and Decisions (1986-1995)
Volume III of the Handbook of resolutions and decisions
of the WHO Regional Committee for the Western Pacific.
Includes sessions 37th to 46th covering the period
1986-1995. The structure of Volume III follows a subject
classification.
* Resolutions of the forty-seventh session of the Regional
committee (1996)
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Dr.Christoph G.Grevelding Tel.:(49)-211-81-13070
Genetic Parasitology Fax :(49)-211-81-12333
Institute of Genetics (49)-211-81-12279
Heinrich-Heine-Universitaet
Universitaetsstrasse 1
40225 Duesseldorf
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