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World Health Organization
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 May 2009
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Regional Meetings
During the autumn of 1954, sessions were held of six of the regional committees of the World Health Organization. From September 10 to 16, 1954, the Regional Committee for the Western Pacific held its fifth session in Manila under the chairmanship of Dr. F. S. Maclean (New Zealand). In adopting the report of the Regional Director on the activities of 1953–54, the committee expressed particular appreciation of the increase in the number of fellowships within the region. The regional program and budget for 1956 were approved, as were certain revisions in the 1955 budget made necessary by financial restrictions; the principal activities planned for 1955 and 1956 related to the control of malaria, tuberculosis, venereal diseases, and yaws, but educative and administrative aspects of public health were also included. The following were among the main recommendations and suggestions of the committee: 1) that the Regional Director allocate, so far as possible, the necessary funds for a travel study tour within the region in 1956; 2) that health authorities in the region be asked to prepare papers on the public health aspects of virus diseases; and 3) that the staff of the regional office and consultants be required to give first priority to the least favorably situated member countries. Technical discussions held during the session dealt with public health administration, with particular reference to the organization of health services. In closing, the committee decided that its sixth session should be held in September 1955, at Singapore.
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- International Organizations: Summary of Activities: II. Specialized Agencies
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1 Chronicle of the World Health Organization, VIII, p. 334. For information on the fourth session of the committee, see Intenational Organization, VIII, p. 149.
2 Chronicle of the World Health Organization, VIII, p. 334–335. For information on the third session of the committee, see International Organization, VIII, p. 148–149.
3 Chronicle of the World Health Organization, VIII, p. 385–336. For information on the sixth session of the Committee, see International Organization, VIII, p. 149–150.
4 Chronicle of the World Health Organization, VIII, p. 357. For information on thethird session of the Committee, see International Organization, VIII, p. 150Google Scholar.
5 Chronicle of the World Health Organizetion, VIII, p. 358–359. For information on the fifth sesison of the Committee (seventh session of the Directing Council of PASO), see International Organization, VIII, p. 414Google Scholar.
6 Chronicle of the World Health Organizetion, VIII, p. 357–358. For information on the last session of the full regional committee, see International Organization, V, p. 388, where the date of the meeting, held in 1950, was incorrectly cited as 1951; for information on action in regard to the Eastern Mediterranean Regional Committee taken by the seventh WHO Assembly, see ibid., VIII, p. 396–397.
7 Chronicle of the World Health Organization, VlII, p. 360–361.
8 United Nations Press Release H/1187, September 27, 1954.
9 Ibid., H/1199, December 20, 1954.
10 Chronicle of the World Health Organization, VIII, p. 360.
11 United Nations Press Release H/1176, August 31, 1954.
12 Ibid., H/1191, October 21, 1954.
13 Ibid., H/1195, November 10, 1954.
14 who Technical Report Series 1954, No. 88.
15 Ibid., No. 89.
16 Ibid., No. 90.
17 Ibid., No. 91.