Therapeutic Patient Education [antikvár]

The World Health Organization is a specialized agency of the United Nations with primary responsibility for international health matters and public health. Through this Organization, which was created in 1948, the health professions of over 180 countries exchange their knowledge and experience with the aim of making possible the attainment by all citizens of the world of a level of health that will permit them to lead a socially and economically productive life. The WHO Régiónál Office for Europe is one of six régiónál offices throughout the world, each with its own programme geared to the particular health problems of the countries it serves. The European Region embraces somé 850 millión people living in an area stretching from Greenland in the north and the Mediterranean in the south to the Pacitic shores of Russia. The European programme of WHO therefore concentrates both on the problems associated with industrial and post-industrial society and on those faced by the emerging democracies of central and eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. In its strategy for attaining the goal of health for all the Régiónál Office is arranging its activities in three main areas: lifestyles conducive to health, a healthy environment, and appropriate services for prevention, treatment and care. The European Region is characterized by the large number of languages spoken by its peoples, and the resulting difficulties in disseminating information to all who may need it. Applications for rights of translation of Régiónál Office books are therefore most welcome.