Session B cross sectoral actions to achieve the health Millennium Development Goals

Women's health promotion could be a practical approach to achieve greater gender equity.

The Ministry of Health launched its Programme of Exercises for Better Health (PROESA) in order to encourage Mexican citizens to achieve a better state of health.

(c) Assisting the national health programmes in the formulation of clearly defined health education objectives, and planning the health education activities designed to achieve these objectives

Session C securing resources and increasing effectiveness to achieve the health Millennium Development Goals

(d) Designing, testing, producing and distributing health education materials needed to achieve these objectives

However, the corollary notion that non health sector actions are also needed to successfully achieve health sector objectives is not always equally well appreciated.

On the basis of the World Health Organization (WHO) definition of health, the Ministry of Health has taken on board the following main policy areas in order to achieve the objectives

In spite of their low incomes, Governments in these countries established a strong educational foundation and made key health interventions to achieve major health outcomes.

The Forum focused on four key cross cutting issues that are crucial for achieving the health Millennium Development Goals in Asia and the Pacific, namely (a) strengthening health systems through capacity building, (b) promoting cross sectoral actions to achieve the health Millennium Development Goals, (c) securing resources and increasing effectiveness to achieve the health Millennium Development Goals, and (d) ensuring equity in access to quality health services.

Our efforts and resources in those two health areas must be doubled to achieve the goals set.

The national health policy sets out to achieve certain measurable goals and objectives by the year 2000.

The principal actions taken to achieve this target have been those by the Ministry of Public Health under the National Reproductive Health Programme and the Vaccination Programme.

Therefore, it is evident that coercive public health measures drive away the people most in need of such services and fail to achieve their public health goals of prevention through behavioural change, care and health support.

In order to achieve those goals, the Ministry of Health relies on a number of strategies for promoting health, involving a series of formal and informal, intra sectoral and inter sectoral activities. A number of strategies have been implemented by the Ministry to achieve these objectives

The participants resolved to strengthen efforts to achieve the health Millennium Development Goals on the basis of ownership and partnership.

We welcome the goals of the International Conference on Population and Development to achieve reproductive health services globally before 2015.

There are many steps that States can take to protect HIV related human rights and to achieve public health goals.

Launch, by 2006, a global initiative to strengthen, by 2010, national health systems in developing countries by building on existing mechanisms with sufficient health workers, infrastructure, management systems and supplies to achieve the health related Millennium Development Goals

Existing measures to achieve better mental health for men and women include, for example, capacity building and creation of networks in the communities on mental health, improvement of quality and standard of mental health services, innovations, knowledge and technology.

We are also on track to achieve the targets of reducing child mortality, attaining greater gender equality and improving maternal health.

Even basic health services intended to reach the poor normally achieve higher coverage rates among the better off, thereby exacerbating disparities

60. World Health Organization Technical cooperation between the Comoros and WHO is aimed at helping the country to achieve priority health development goals under its plan entitled Perspectives to the year 2010 .

113. Efforts to achieve the goals of national quot health for all quot strategies, in line with the Alma Ata conference declaration on primary health care,E ICEF L.1387, annex, sect. V.

Promoting advocacy, raising general health consciousness, delivering technical health messages in a more comprehensible form, creating political will among decision makers and fostering community involvement by educating the public to achieve positive health, and greater responsibility in self care are other objectives.

The increased efforts by Governments to achieve the Millennium Development Goals are often accompanied by higher public expenditures, particularly in education and health.

The strategy defines the UNICEF contribution to national efforts to accelerate health and nutrition action to achieve the Millennium Development Goals by 2015.

This illustrates both the priority accorded to health in the country apos s global policy and the importance of primary health care as the fundamental component of this policy in the effort to achieve the goal of health for all by the year 2000.

Strengthen by 2010 the health care system in developing countries, through the provision of sufficient health workers, resources, infrastructure, management systems and supplies, to achieve the health related Millennium Development Goals and to launch by 2006 a global initiative to strengthen the national health care systems in developing countries, building on existing mechanisms

Countries that are beset by conflict, health crises and debt, particularly those in Africa, have found it especially difficult to achieve and sustain momentum.

(a) Increasing investment, building on existing mechanisms and through partnership, to improve health systems in developing countries and those with economies in transition with the aim of providing sufficient health workers, infrastructure, management systems and supplies to achieve the health related Millennium Development Goals by 2015

We are, therefore, seeking to build partnerships with key organizations, such as the World Health Organization, in order to achieve a coordinated and holistic approach.

With regard to services in the area of health, it had been possible to achieve the lowest rate of infantile mortality in the Arab world.

It is a challenge for countries to be able to afford basic health services for their populations, ensure financial protection and achieve the Millennium Development Goals.

Over 100,000 women were being trained as primary health workers and a compulsory education act had been adopted to achieve the goal of universal primary education.

The Strategy provides a unifying framework for WHO apos s activities and has the following three goals to achieve a sustainable basis for health for all to provide an environment that promotes health and to make all individuals and organizations aware of their responsibility for health and its environmental basis.

Recognizing the need to progressively achieve the full realization of the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health,

In order to achieve this goal, a health development strategy for Bosnia and Herzegovina is currently being developed as a part of the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper.

Urges Member States and the international community to increase investment, building on existing mechanisms and through partnership, to improve health systems in developing countries and countries with economies in transition with the aim of providing sufficient health workers, infrastructures, management systems and supplies to achieve the health related Millennium Development Goals by 2015

Think of a car that can and should achieve great performance based on its strong internal engine. Egypt is capable of speedy economic growth and durable financial health.

2. Urges Member States and the international community to increase investment, building on existing mechanisms and through partnership, to improve health systems in developing countries and countries with economies in transition with the aim of providing sufficient health workers, infrastructures, management systems and supplies to achieve the health related Millennium Development Goals by 2015

Recognizing also the importance of the rule of law, good governance, a vibrant private sector, as well as effective social sectors, including education and health, to achieve sustainable development,

This programme aims at strengthening coordination among the various agencies in the health sector in order to achieve provincial and municipal decentralization and integration at the local district level.

The expansion of trade in health services could provide new export opportunities for developing countries, promote greater efficiency and do much to strengthen the capacity of all countries, in particular developing countries, to achieve the objective of assuring adequate health care to their populations.

The Secretary General emphasized that sport is a good vehicle for promoting education, health, development and peace as a part of the overall effort to achieve the Millennium Development Goals.