Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Phadke, MA

Titel

UNICEF: suggestions for change

Ist Teil von

• The Lancet (British edition), 2005-01, Vol.365 (9456), p.289-289

Ort / Verlag

England: Elsevier Ltd

Erscheinungsjahr

2005

Quelle

Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• In his Comment1 on UNICEF [Richard Horton] seems to lay all the blame for the agency's deficiencies on Carol Bellamy. But UNICEF's deficiencies are not due to the personal attributes of any one individual; they are due to a fundamental misunderstanding of UNICEF's mandate. The organisation has no mandate to supersede WHO's constitutional role to "act as the directing and co-ordinating authority on international health work."2 WHO energetically pointed this out to UNICEF's then Executive Director, [James Grant], more than 20 years ago, but to no avail. Under his directorship, UNICEF had jointly sponsored with WHO the International Conference on Primary Health Care that adopted the Declaration of Alma Ata, designed in response to the challenge of Health for All by the Year 2000. That Declaration spelled out the principles of primary health care as an integral part of a country's health and socioeconomic system, implying the sustained development of the system's infrastructure, including its physical institutions and health workers. Moreover, WHO formulated a series of guidelines to implement the Declaration.3-5