The Regional Committee,
Having considered Part II of the report of the Sub-Committee on Programmes and Technical Cooperation;*
Noting the views expressed by the Sub- Committee and by the representatives during the current session;
Recognizing the encouraging progress made by Member States in implementing their strategies for health for all, but mindful of the work still to be done;
- URGES Member States:
- (1) to sustain their efforts to implement national policies and strategies for health for all by the year 2000, with particular emphasis on promoting greater equity within the health sector;
- (2) to seek improved ways of sharing with other countries the knowledge derived from their experience in implementing, monitoring and evaluating their health-for-all strategies;
- (3) to strengthen their national policies in certain priority areas such as the control of selected diseases, environmental health and human resource development;
- (4) to ensure that the health sector coordinates its activities with and is supported by other sectors concerned with social and economic development;
- REQUESTS the Regional Director:
- (1) to support collaboration among Member States in the continuous development and implementation of their health strategies;
- (2) to transmit the evaluation report to the Director-General together with the comments of representatives;
- (3) to submit the regional evaluation report for inclusion in the Eighth Report on the World Health Situation.