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<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><b><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span lang="PT-BR" style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">PROVISIONAL AGENDA  - </span></font></b><i><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span lang="PT-BR" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-STYLE: italic; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.paho.org/english/gov/cd/CD48-14-e.pdf" target="_blank"><font color="navy"><span style="COLOR: navy">Item 4.10 </span></font><font color="navy"><span style="COLOR: navy; FONT-STYLE: normal">CD48/14, Rev. 1 (Eng.)</span></font></a></span></font></i></p>

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<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">1. Opening: President of the Directing Council</span></font></p>
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<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1in"><b><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="1"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">A. </span></font></b><b><i><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-STYLE: italic; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Sir Michael Marmot</span></font></i></b><b><i><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="1"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-STYLE: italic; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">: </span></font></i></b><i><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="1"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-STYLE: italic; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Chair, Commission on Social Determinants of Health: R</span></font></i><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="1"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">ecommendations of the Commission on Social Determinants of Health (CSDH), publicly constituted in March 2005 by the World Health Organization (WHO) through decisions of the 57th World Health Assembly, with the mission of collecting data and evidence on the social and environmental causes of health inequalities and on potential ways to correct them. More specifically, he will discuss three principles of action linked with: <br>
(1) strategies for improving the living conditions, in which populations are born, grow, work, and age;<br>(2) the structural factors of unequal distribution of power, money, and resources; and </span></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1in"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="1"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">(3) raising public awareness about the social determinants of health and expansion of the knowledge base with training and measurement of the magnitude of health inequities<i><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">. </span></i>(<i><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">10 minutes</span></i>)</span></font></p>

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<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1in"><b><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="1"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">B. <i><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Dr. Wim Van Lerbeghe: </span></i></span></font></b><i><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="1"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-STYLE: italic; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Health Systems and Services Cluster</span></font></i><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="1"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">, <i><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">WHO</span></i></span></font></p>

<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1in"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="1"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The main elements of WHO's renewed vision in Primary Health Care (PHC), with special reference to the strengthening of PHC-based health systems and their contribution to the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals, the elimination of inequities in health care, and the guarantee of universal access to health services. (<i><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">10 minutes</span></i>)</span></font></p>

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<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1in"><b><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="1"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">C. <i><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Dr. Socorro Gross-Galiano: </span></i></span></font></b><i><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="1"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-STYLE: italic; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Assistant Director</span></font></i><i><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="1"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-STYLE: italic; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">, PAHO</span></font></i></p>

<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1in"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="1"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">PAHO's perspective for responding to the mandate to provide technical cooperation in order to strengthen PHC-based health systems. She will stress the creation of local service networks structured around PHC; the integration of health programs (by diseases or special groups) and the health services; efforts to extend social protection in health and universal coverage; human resources development; and intersectoral action to address health determinants and engage in health promotion by coordinating public policies to achieve the Millennium Development Goals. (<i><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">10 minutes</span></i>)</span></font></p>

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<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><b><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">3. Commentators</span></font></b></p>
<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">• Dr. Hubert Alexander Minnis, Minister of Health, Bahamas (<i><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">10 minutes</span></i>)</span></font></p>

<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">• Dr. José Guillermo Maza, Minister of Health, El Salvador (<i><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">10 minutes</span></i>)</span></font></p>

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<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><b><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">4. Plenary discussion </span></font></b><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">(<i><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">35 minutes</span></i>)</span></font></p>

<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><b><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><br>Rapporteurs</span></font></b></p>
<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">• Dr. Hernán Montenegro, Regional Adviser on Health Systems and Services, PAHO/WHO</span></font></p>

<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">• Dr. Marilyn Rice, Regional Adviser on Sustainable Development and Environmental Health, PAHO/WHO</span></font></p>

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<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><b><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Information document: WHO Global and Regional Meetings and Initiatives in Support of the Renewal of Primary Health Care</span></font></b></p>

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