Implementing agency provincial Ministries of Health

Lead agency Ministry of Health and Welfare, Directorate of Maternal and Child Health

The Agency remained reliant on voluntary contributions to fund its regular programme operations.

The Ministry of Health is the national implementing agency.

There are at present more than 15,000 young voluntary health workers, who assist in providing primary health care.

Expansion of family health programme, Gaza (Overseas Development Agency) (ODA)

Voluntary repatriation programme The Ministry of Health and Welfare finances the International Organization for Migration for the voluntary repatriation of the victims.

Egypt had recently decided to double its voluntary annual contribution to the Agency apos s budget.

Outpatient care (data from the Health Statistics and Medical Technology Agency)

The Agency also facilitated post graduate training opportunities for health staff.

Family health continued to be emphasized as an integral part of the Agency apos s regular health programme.

The Agency also operated one health point and three mother and child health centres which provided a full range of family health services.

(d) Publication of press articles to promote health or provide health education (extracts from agency files or original articles)

The situation with immunisation in Latvia (data from the Public Health Agency)

The following specialized agency was represented by an observer World Health Organization.

Agency services were provided through 18 health centres and six health points offering comprehensive medical care, including family health services, as well as one mother and child health centre.

The Agency also operated one health point and three MCH centres, which provided a full range of family health services.

In its capacity as the lead operational health agency, UNICEF provided essential medical supplies, vaccines and training to health workers.

Average Agency expenditure on health in 2004 was 14.6 per capita1 for the range of Agency health services comprising outpatient medical care, laboratory and radiology support services, maternal and child health care, family planning, school health services, disease prevention and control, dental care, and physical rehabilitation and hospitalization services.

Agency services were provided through 18 health centres and six health points offering comprehensive medical care, including family health services, as well as one MCH centre.

The UNRWA Jerusalem Health Centre epitomizes difficulties in refugees' access to Agency services.

23.3 During the biennium 1996 1997, the Agency operated a total of 122 primary health care facilities, including 89 health centres, 23 health points and 10 maternal and child health clinics.

The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) was created in June 2000 as the Government of Canada's agency for health research.

Since its creation, the Agency established measures to deal with public health emergencies including

Her delegation fully supported the principle of voluntary choice regarding maternal and child health and family planning.

The Public Health Agency focusses on public health issues of importance, ensures clear federal leadership in the case of a health emergency and provides coordinated, coherent response to public health issues domestically and internationally.

Saskatchewan Health has been collaborating with First Nations communities, Health Canada, the Public Health Agency of Canada, and Regional Health Authorities on emergency management planning for pandemic influenza and other disasters and emergency events.

For example the United Nations Population Fund is the lead agency for reproductive health commodities.

The United States fully supported the principle of voluntary choice regarding maternal and child health and family planning.

With the support of voluntary contributions, UNRWA provided health, education, humanitarian assistance and other services to Palestinian refugees.

The World Health Organization (WHO) and UNHCR spearheaded the Inter Agency Health Evaluations in Humanitarian Crises Initiative, which comprise sectorwide evaluations that examine the collective impact of health sector interventions.

It recognized the invaluable work carried out by UNICEF and had been making voluntary contributions to the agency in recent years.

Other components Regional Infection Control Networks, an agency and the integration of the Public Health Laboratories within the Public Health Division are in progress.

The chief Environmental Health Officer is responsible for the overall running of the Agency and is answerable to the Minister for the Environment and Health.

The Mexico Republic of Korea agreement contains a provision whereby each competition agency may assist the other agency, upon request, in locating and obtaining evidence and witnesses, and in obtaining voluntary compliance with requests for information, in the territory where the requested agency has jurisdiction.

The Department of Health is the lead agency in the family planning programme, giving the department two functions that of major implementing agency and of a coordinating agency for all activities on family planning service delivery.

Between 1994 and 1995, there was an increase in the proportion of primary health care coverage provided by the National Health Institute, a government agency which manages approximately half of the health budget.

Without more funds, the Agency would be unable to maintain the quality of even basic health care.

In total, the Agency lost 2,528 health staff days in the Gaza Strip during the reporting period.

The quality of drinking water The quality of drinking water in Latvia is supervised by the Public Health Agency.

The treatment and state of health of staff members in detention continued to be of concern to the Agency.

226. Two public agencies in Denmark are responsible for educating the public about nutrition, the National Consumer Agency (Ministry of Business and Industry) and the National Food Agency (Ministry of Health).

Approximately 62 per cent of cash allocations to the health programme was devoted to the costs of 3,412 locally recruited health staff Agency wide, who implemented all core programme activities.

Also, the Agency had under its remit the Family Mediation Service, which consisted of a network of voluntary groups which provided marriage, relationship and bereavement counselling.

The membership of these committees includes divisional officers from the departments of health, education, and agriculture, officers from voluntary organizations and village leaders.