tailieunhanh - REGIONAL OFFICE FOR THE WESTERN PACIFIC BUREAU REGIONAL DU PACIFIQUE OCCIDENTAL

The new millennium requires new thinking about the relationship between health and development. It is not simply the turn of a calendar page that beckons us to new thinking. It is the growing conviction that, notwithstanding enormous gains in many critical areas of health over the last 50 years, the old strategies are no longer sufficient. Indeed, to a large degree, they are failing. In many parts of the world mortality declines have slowed or stagnated; in others they have reversed, leaving literally billions suffering from avoidable mortality and morbidity. Inequalities. | WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION ORGANISATION MONDIALE DE LA SANTE REGIONAL OFFICE FOR THE WESTERN PACIFIC BUREAU REGIONAL DU PACIFIQUE OCCIDENTAL REGIONAL COMMITTEE WPR RC56 8 Fifty-sixth session 28 July 2005 Noumea. New Caledonia 19-23 September 2005 ORIGINAL ENGLISH Provisional agenda item 12 CHILD HEALTH Some 3000 children under five years of age die every day in the Western Pacific Region from common neonatal conditions pneumonia and diarrhoea. Undernutrition also is common and increases the risk of death. Most child deaths occur where basic health care is in short supply or barriers prevent access to families seeking care. The majority of these child deaths could be avoided with readily available cost-effective interventions. The Regional Committee at its fifty-fourth session urged Member States particularly those with high child mortality to place child health higher on their political economic and health This prompted a new drive to reduce child mortality in Member States particularly in areas of greatest need in line with Millennium Development Goal 4 reduction of the under-five mortality rate by two thirds between 1990 and 2015. As a response WHO and the United Nations Children s Fund UNICEF have collaborated in developing a joint Regional Child Survival Strategy that aims to reduce inequities in child survival and to achieve national targets for MDG 4 by accelerating and sustaining actions to reduce childhood mortality. The strategy advocates universal access to an essential package of key child survival interventions delivered through integrated approaches. Core child survival indicators have been identified to regularly monitor progress and to generate benchmarks for stepped-up advocacy and resource mobilization. Collaboration of all stakeholders under strong national leadership is necessary to ensure a continuum of care and synergistic measurable implementation of the essential package. The Regional Committee is requested to discuss and endorse the

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