Health in All Policies Approaches: Pearls from the Western Pacific Region

Organisation of veterinary public health in the western Pacific region.

Information on veterinary public health organisation and activities was obtained from government sources in countries located in the Western Pacific region. This region has a wide range of geographical features, population densities, farming practices, social structures and disease prevalences. In spite of this variation, there is common agreement on the importance of veterinary public health b...

TRADITIONAL AND MODERN MEDICINE HARMONIZING THE TWO APPROACHES WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION Western Pacific Region

This document is issued by the World Health Organization-Regional Office for the Western Pacific (WHO/WPRO) for general distribution. All rights are reserved. Subject to due acknowledgement to WHO/WPRO, this document may, however, be freely reviewed, abstracted, reproduced or translated, in part or in whole, provided that such is not done for or in conjunction with commercial purposes and provi...

Health transition: examples from the western Pacific.

The Industrial Revolution ushered in a rapid transition from agriculture to industrialization. Some biological effects of this transition included increasing life expectancy, reduced infant mortality, and some decline in fertility. Reduced infant mortality first brought about an increase in life expectancy, but as humans were able to control infectious diseases, child and adult mortality also...

Gold Medal for Finnish Health in All Policies Book

This article is a review of the book “Health in All Policies: Seizing opportunities, implementing policies” edited by Kimmo Leppo, Eeva Ollila, Sebastián Peña, Matthias Wismar, and Sarah Cook. This book (printed and online publication) was published by the Finnish Ministry of Social Affairs and Health, Finland in 2013 (1). The book is freely available at http://www.euro.who.int/__data/assets/pd...

Implementing the international health regulations (2005) in the World Health Organization Western Pacific Region.