AFR/RC23/R4: 1972-1973 The Regional Committee,
Having examined the Report of the Regional Director for the period 1972-1973;
Noting that the report reflects the realistic and determined spirit of the Regional Office, Satisfied with the reaffirmation of the need for an integrated approach as the best way of developing health services with limited resources;
Convinced that health promotion depends on an increasing awareness of the community health problems,
1. WELCOMES the positive and promising results accruing from the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Organization;
2. CONGRATULATES the Regional Director and his collaborators and ASSURES them of its complete confidence as they continue the programme;
3. APPROVES the report of the Regional Director;
4. REQUESTS the Regional Director, in so far as resources are available, to continue:
(i) to encourage the integrated approach to health problems,
(ii) to find more effective and cheaper systems of approach to these problems, (iii) to provide increased support to manpower training, to national health planning,
to human environmental health and to control of communicable planning, to human environmental health and to control of communicable diseases.
September 1973, 23, 8
