FIFTH REPORT - World Health Organization

NOTE
In May 1970 the Twenty -third World Health Assembly, after discussing the Fourth
Report on the World Health Situation,' invited Members to provide information for a fifth
report, covering the period 1969 -1972, and requested the Director -General to prepare this
Fifth Report for the Twenty -seventh World Health Assembly. 2
In May 1974 the Twenty- seventh World Health Assembly discussed and noted the Fifth
Report, thanked Members and Associate Members for their assistance in providing material,
and requested them to submit any further information or amendments they wished to include.
In the same resolution it requested the Executive Board to consider at its fifty -fifth session the
question of rationalizing the collection and summarizing of information on the health situation
in the various countries. Pending the recommendations of the Board, the Director - General
should continue his preliminary work on preparation of a sixth report, in which Member
States were urged to take an active part. He was further requested to present a progress
report to a subsequent World Health Assembly. 2
Part I of this volume, the General Survey, contains an analytical review, under broad
subject headings, of certain aspects of the reports received from Member States and Associate
Members. The reports themselves, with the additions and amendments submitted by the
governments, are reproduced in Part II.
1 Published as WHO Official Records, No. 192, 1971.
2 Resolution WHA23.24.
3 Resolution WHA27.60.
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Health Organization concerning the legal status of any country, territory, city or area or of
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