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A 20 page research paper that examines several problematic issues that have interfered with the World Health Organization's (WHO) stated mandate to bring the highest possible level of heath to all the people of the world. The issues include the sale and quality control of pharmaceuticals on the international market, the advertising and sale of infant formula in developing countries and the effectiveness of the Global Program on AIDS. Bibliography lists 17 sources.
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20 pages (~225 words per page)
File: D0_Whoeff.doc
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while advances have been made, the idealistic goal of health for all appears to be even further from realization then it was in 1978. This is due to a
number of factors, some of which were beyond the control of human agency. For example, AIDS was not yet a factor in world health in the late 70s. Today it
has reached pandemic status. However, several problems have worsened since 1978 because of political interests both within WHO and from outside forces. The sale of infant formula to mothers
in developing countries has caused serious health problems and increased infant mortality. Pharmaceuticals sold to Third World countries have been substandard, which has caused a subsequent, and tragic, increase in
mortality. Sales of pharmaceuticals to developing countries has been abusive, and the development and execution of WHOs Global Program on AIDS has suffered due to a poor coordination of available
resources, and dissension as to the proper way to combat this awful disease. According to Jareg and Kaseje (1998), the grand vision stated in the Alma Ata declaration suffered
from poor implementation almost immediately. They state that it was soon clear that implementation of the primary health care could not be accomplished by government working on strictly on their
own. Non-government organizations (NGOs) that were already accustomed to working with communities should have been made a core part of the declaration and its implementation (Jareg; Kaseje, 1998, p. 819).
Jareg and Kasseje (1998) feel that this should have been implemented because the declaration necessarily implied that an overhaul of service-delivery systems in many countries was called for.
Not realizing that this lack of inclusiveness constituted a weak link in any plan to implement primary health care, policy makers wasted close to a decade before they even began
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