From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Ruggiero, Mrs. Ana Lucia (WDC)</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ruglucia@paho.org">ruglucia@paho.org</a>></span><br><div class="gmail_quote">crossposted from: <a href="mailto:EQUIDAD@listserv.paho.org">EQUIDAD@listserv.paho.org</a><br>
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<b><span style="font-weight:bold">World Health Organization – May 2013 <br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font color="#333333" face="Helvetica"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:#333333;background:white">“….15 May 2013 – The world has made
dramatic progress in improving health in the poorest countries and narrowing
the gaps between countries with the best and worst health status in the past
two decades, according to the<span> </span></span><i style="text-align:start;word-spacing:0px"><span style="font-style:italic">World
Health Statistics 2013</span></i><span style="text-align:start;float:none;word-spacing:0px">. “<i><span style="font-style:italic">Intensive
efforts to achieve the Millennium Development Goals have clearly improved
health for people all over the world,</span></i>” says Dr Margaret Chan,
Director-General of WHO.</span></font><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial"><u></u><u></u></span></font></p>

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World Health Statistics 2013 contains WHO’s annual compilation of
health-related data for its 194 Member States, and includes a summary of the
progress made towards achieving the health-related Millennium Development Goals
(MDGs) and associated targets.<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">This year, it also includes
highlight summaries on current trends in official development assistance (ODA)
for health.<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">Progress on the health - </span></font><i><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-style:italic">Available in 3 languages English French Spanish<br>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">Table of contents and introduction<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><u></u><u></u><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">Part</span></font><u></u><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial"> <u></u>I.<u></u></span></font><u></u><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial"> Health-related Millennium
Development Goals<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">Part II. Highlighted topics<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">Part III. Global health indicators<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">Annex 1: Regional and income
groupings<br>
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THE INDICATOR COMPENDIUM<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">World Health Statistics 2013 -
Indicator compendium</span></font><br></p></div></div></div><br>