TY - BOOK ED - World Health Organization TI - The world health report 1998: life in the 21st century, a vision for all SN - 9241561890 AV - RA8.A5 .W67 1998 PY - 1998/// CY - Geneva PB - World Health Organization, KW - Public health History KW - World Health Organization N1 - includes index; Leading and responding Measuring health Health across the life span Changing world Achieving health for all WHO worldwide Global partnerships for health Health agenda for the 21st century N2 - Relates the history of WHO from 1948 to 1998; summarizes trends in mortality and disease since 1955; characterizes health problems faced by various age groups over the past fifty years; discusses the main global trends affecting health; reports on the changes in health systems and health care since the launching of the Health for All strategy at the Alma-Alta Conference in 1978; summarizes health trends since 1948 for each of the six WHO regions; gives examples of global partnerships for health; and considers the health agenda for the twenty-first century ER -