REGIONAL COMMI.T'lEE: 'MN'lY-SEVENTH SESSION
WPR/RC27 • RIO CORE PROGRAMMES FOR CHIIDHEALTH" WITH PARTICULAR EMPHASIS ON STAFF 'mAINING
The Regional Committee,
Having considered the statement of the Representative of the United Kingdom on the importance of core programmes for child health, with particular emphasis on staff training;
Reiterating the importance for child health of nutrition.
particularly nutritional hygiene, communicable diseases and health education;
Appreciating the interest of Member States of the Region in the needs and problems of childhood, in particular those relating to prevalent pathology and to influences on the psychosocial development of children;
1. NO'lES with satisfaction the efforts of WHO and other United Nations agencies, in part1cularUNICEF;
2. URGES Member States to continue their endeavours to meet the needs of children through intensifying the role of adequately trained staff, of all disciplines and at all levels, in promoting activities for improving the outcome of pregnancy and controlling the prevalence of diseases and factors which bear on the psychosocial development of children;
3. REQUESTS the Regional Director to continue to give all possible assistance to Member States encountering problems in the training of health staff to enable them to promote activities benefitting children.
Fifth meeting, 10 September 1976
WPR/RC27. Rll PROGRESS IN NUTRITIONAL SURVEILLANCE
The Regional Committee,
Having considered the statement of the Representative of the United Kingdom on the need to develop national systems for nutritional surveillance;
Having heard with interest of the steps being taken in certain countries and areas of the Region;
1. NOTES that malnutrition perSiSts, even when national economic indicators improve;
