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Use of WHO documents to provide information support to decision makers Tatyana V. Kaigorodova, MD, PhD Head, WHO Documentation Centre, Public Health Research Institute, Ministry of Health, Russian Federation.
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Use of WHO documents to provide information support to decision makers Tatyana V. Kaigorodova, MD, PhD Head, WHO Documentation Centre, Public Health Research Institute, Ministry of Health, Russian Federation
The new politics and strategy pursued by the WHO Regional Office for Europe for information products and services aim at providing healthcare policy makers in the European region and beyond with premium quality, relevant and valid information WHO Documentation Centres - key instruments to disseminate WHO information among the member-states of the WHO European Region.
Target audiences of WHO documentation centers by priority: • Governmentsandpublic officials • Experts in medicine and health care (researches, physicians and nurses, health leaders, healthcare NGO personnel) • Mass media.
WHO Documentation Centre with the Central Public Health Research Institute of the Ministry of Health of Russia was established in 1994 by the Order of the Ministry of Health.
WHO publications available at the Centre • More than 1700 documents issued by the WHO in Russian, English, French, and German, which have been received from the WHO Regional Office for Europe in Copenhagen, and the WHO Headquarters, Geneva; • WHO Documentation Centre database in English and in Russian with summaries in Russian of all WHO publications available at the Centre.
WHO publications available at the Centre (continued) 1. Books (guidelines, monographs, etc.). 2. Proceedings of conferences, seminars, working-group workshops, and other WHO meetings on various problems of medicine and health care. 3. Documents of the World Health Assembly sessions, the WHO Executive Board and the WHO Regional Committee for Europe. 4. Statistics collections, including the World Health Statistics Annual, the Weekly Epidemiological Record and other. 5. Collected international laws. 6.Journals: Bulletin of the World Health Organization, World Health Forum, World Health, Entre Nous in Russian and in English. 7.WHO Technical Report Series of the main subjects of medicine and health care.
Decision makers collaborating with the WHO Documentation Centre National level: - Ministry of Health - State Duma (Parliament) Regional level: - Heads of Health Care Departments of the Russian Regions - Heads of Departments for Social Welfare of the Russian Regions
Requests from the national level • WHO official documents (resolutions and decisions of the World Health Assembly, the WHO Executive Board and the WHO Regional Committee for Europe) – 60-% • Executive summaries on specific problems based on the main WHO publications (3 pages maximum) – 15% • Conferences and WHO Working Groups reports – 12.5% • Analysis of legislative acts in different countries and WHO approach to develop health legislation – 12.5%
Requests from the regional level • Executive summaries on specific problems based on the main WHO publications – 60% • World health reports and the European health report (2002) published by WHO – 20% • World health statistics – 10% • Analytic papers on local legislation and WHO approach to health legislation – 10%
Generally requested problem areas at the regional level included: • Financing of health care; • Hospital care reform; • Health for all - 21; • Maternal and child health.
