1998 World Health Report: Health in the 21st Century

Description:

This World Health Report 1998 provides the latest expert assessment of the global health situation and uses that as a basis for projecting health trends to the year 2025. This report is organized into eight chapters and each chapter has a main theme that focuses on the entire human life span, and sifting data gathered in the past 50 years. It includes studies of the well-being of infants and children, adolescents and adults, older people and the "oldest old", and identifies priority areas for action in each age group. Specifically, the women's health is given special emphasis in this report. Further, this report shows the major developments and achievements in health in the past 50 years and described the economic trends, population trends and social trends which will influence health in the early 21st century.

subjects: World health,  Statistics,  Global Health,  Public health,  World Health Organization,  Saude publica,  Trends,  Saude publica (historia),  Health Status,  History,  Health Services Administration,  Health Status Indicators,  WHO,  Wereldgezondheid