THIRTY-FOURTH WORLD HEALTH ASSEMBLY   GENEVA, 4-22 MAY 1981         WHA34.36 Global Strategy for health for all by the year 2000

 

 WHA34.36Global Strategy for health for all by the year 2000

The Thirty-fourth World Health Assembly,

Recalling WHO's constitutional objective of the attainment by all peoples of the high est possible level of health, the Declaration of Alma-Ata, and resolutions WHA30.43, WHA32.30, and WHA33.24 concerning health for all by the year 2000 and the formulation of strategies for attaining that goal, as well as resolution 34/58 of the United Nations General Assembly concerning health as an integral part of development;

Having reviewed the Strategy submitted to it by the Executive Board in the document entitled "Global Strategy for health for all by the year 2000";

Considering this Strategy to be an invaluable basis for attaining the goal of health for all by the year 2000 through the solemnly agreed, combined efforts of governments, people and WHO;

1. ADOPTS the Global Strategy for health for all by the year 2000;

2. PLEDGES WHO's total commitment to the fulfilment of its part in this solemn agreement for health;

3. DECIDES that the Health Assembly will monitor the progress and evaluate the effectiveness of the Strategy at regular intervals;

4. INVITES Member States:

                         (1) to enter into this solemn agreement for health of their own volition, to formulate or strengthen, and implement, their strategies for health for all accordingly, and to monitor their progress and evaluate their effectiveness, using appropriate indicators to this end;                   

                         (2) to enlist the involvement of people in all walks of life, including individuals, families, communities, all categories of health workers, nongovernmental organizations, and other associations of people concerned;                 

5. REQUESTS the Executive Board:

                         (1) to prepare without delay a plan of action for the immediate implementation, monitoring and evaluation of the Strategy, and submit it, in the light of the observations of the regional committees, to the Thirty-fifth World Health Assembly;                   

                         (2) to monitor and evaluate the Strategy at regular intervals;               

                         (3) to formulate the Seventh and subsequent General Programmes of Work as WHO'S support to the Strategy;                     

6. REQUESTS the regional committees:

                         (1) to review their regional strategies, update them as necessary in the light of the Global Strategy, and monitor and evaluate them at regular intervals;             

                         (2) to review the Executive Board's draft plan of action for implementing the Strategy and submit their comments to the Board in time for it to consider them at its sixty-ninth session in January 1982;                      

7. REQUESTS the Director-General:

                         (1) to ensure that the Secretariat at all operational levels provides the necessary support to Member States for the implementation, monitoring and evaluation of the Strategy;                   

                         (2) to follow up all aspects of the implementation of the Strategy on behalf of the Organization's governing bodies, and to report annually to the Executive Board on progress made and problems encountered;             

                         (3) to present the Strategy to the United Nations Economic and Social Council and General Assembly in 1981, and report to them subsequently at regular intervals on progress made in implementing it, as well as United Nations General Assembly resolution 34/58.                

                        Hbk Res., Vol. II (4th ed.), 1.1 (Sixteenth plenary meeting, 22 May 1981 -               

                         Committee B, seventh report)