World Health Organization Regional Office for South-East Asia

DPR Korea

                    

Bangladesh

Bhutan

DPR Korea

India

Indonesia

Maldives

Myanmar

Nepal

Sri lanka

Thailand

Timor-Leste

         

8. OUTLOOK FOR THE FUTURE

 

8.1 Overall assessment and strategic issues

As described in earlier section, the worsened health indicators in the latter half of the 1990s were recovered gradually. In this period, the humanitarian emergency cooperation for health sector provided by WHO and other international organizations and humanitarian organizations contributed to reconstruct the health facilities and improve the health state.

In accordance with the economic conditions and all fields of the popular economy recovered, the government will implement the activities for further improving the efficiency and perfect health system, for maintaining sustainable health foundations, for intensifying and developing the most popular health care system. It will pay greater attention to improve the popular nutrition and health sanitary situation. Thus, recovering of all health indicators at the level of early 1990s is proposed as the urgent task of health sector.

8.2 Proposed strategies

 

The government will implement Party’s policy of preventive medicine, realize the universal perfect free medical care system, systematically increase the public expenditure on the health sector, improve the health system and skill, manage and run the health institutions efficiently, tap the health resources to the fullest extent, and arouse the entire social and national interest for the health work. 

To eliminate the regional gap in PHC, the government will rationally distribute the PHC network in accordance with the density of population and features of population areas expand and modernize the health facilities and strengthen the training of health workers, thus increasing the specialized level and quality of health services.

The government will put greater efforts into the health and medical scientific technical development, including bioengineering and telemedicine, to improve the health administration, diagnosis and treatment.

The government will further strengthen the international cooperation and exchange within countries in the health sector on the principle of sovereignty, respect, mutual benefit, and non-interference in each other’s internal affairs and develop cooperation with international organizations, especially with WHO.

 

8.3  Basic health Indicators including the U.N. Millennium Development Goals

See Annex.

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