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April 07, 2006
World Health Day 2006: Working Together for Health
Today is World Health Day, an annual event sponsored primarily by the World Health Organization. This year, the event focuses on a celebration of the health care workers and professionals throughout the world and an acknowledgment of a lack of much needed professional expertise and health care workers in many parts of the world.
World Health Organization (WHO): World Health Day: Working Together for Health: http://www.who.int/world-health-day/2006/en/
"Health workers - the people who provide health care to those who need it - are the heart of health systems. But around the world, the health workforce is in crisis - a crisis to which no country is entirely immune. The results are evident: clinics with no health workers, hospitals that cannot recruit or keep key staff."
Related links from WHO:
- World Health Report, 2006, Working Together for Health: http://www.who.int/whr/2006/en/index.html
- World Health Statistics: http://www.who.int/healthinfo/statistics/en/
- Global Atlas of the Health Workforce: http://www.who.int/globalatlas/DataQuery/default.asp
Includes:
- Dentists, total, by country (by year and most recent)
- Dentists per 100,000 population (by year and most recent)
- Dentists, total, by country (by year and most recent)
Posted by pfa at April 7, 2006 11:04 AM