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WHO World Health Organization |
The Russian Academy of Advanced Medical Studies has recommenced its International Course for Health Care Administrators, which is titled "Organization and Management of Health Care Systems". This Course has been annually conducted in Moscow for 32 years up to 1995.
The Courses provide training for high-level administrators from republican ministries as well as from regional and local health care departments. Modern interactive training methods are widely used here as at the similar courses in other countries of the world. The objective prerequisite for recommencing the Moscow courses was urgent need to upgrade the professional skills of health care managers in Russia and in former republics of the Soviet Union. These are now independent states with their own health care systems. Such systems are established as a rule taking into account local medical, demographic and mostly economic characteristics and nevertheless they are drawn towards the Russian health care system.
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indicative fact is that the participants of the first session (held from 25
April to 22 June 2001) after a six year interval, represented not only the regions
of Russia – Dagestan, Karelia, Eastern Siberia, North (Arkhangelsk, Vologda,
Kirov) and the Volga region, but also Armenia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan,
Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Ukraine.
The creative motivated group of participants was formed at the initial stage of training and elaborate questionnaires as well as testing programs gave each participant the opportunity to determine individual priorities of professional skill perfection.
The two-month syllabus was made up in such a way that the participants could master the modern management techniques for solving socio-economic problems of large territorial administrative – medical associations and particular institutions. The lectures were delivered by professionals from the World Health Organization (Prof. Orville Adams, Dr Mikko Vienonen, Dr Andrey Issakov, Dr Alexander Gubarev) as well as by well-known scientists and health care professionals from Moscow.
According to tradition the course was completed by a public defense of the participants’ research papers. When preparing the research paper every participant could apply the knowledge got at the training course for solution of the particular managerial task assigned at the initial stage of the course.
The International Course "Organization and Management of Health Care Systems" was elaborated by the staff of the Chair of International Health Care under the auspices of WHO with the immediate participation of the WHO staff members and experts in providing financial support and guidance. In the unanimous opinion of the participants, who assessed the course very highly, it was a wonderful school of modern management art.
Prof. Vyacheslav Alekseev,
Prof. Felix Vartanyan,
Dr Irina Shurandina
For your UN file
World Health Organization (WHO) works with others to improve the health of populations, by helping Member States. WHO is a specialized agency of the United Nations with 191 Member States. WHO Headquarters are in Geneva, Switzerland.
WHO has four main functions:
– to give worldwide guidance in the field of health
– to set global standards for health
– to cooperate with governments in strengthening national – health programmes
– to develop and transfer appropriate health technology, information and standards.
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www.who.int and www.who.dk (European Region)
WHO office in Russia: 28, Ostozhenka 119034 Moscow Tel: +7 095 787 21 17 Fax: +7 095 787 21 19
e-mail: m.vienonen@who.org.ru.
Special Representative of the Director – General in Russia
Dr. Mikko Vienonen.
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United Nations Association of Russia |
On 3–5 June 2001, the International Symposium "The Twenty-first Century: The Dialogue Among Civilizations and Sustainable Development" took place in Ulan-Ude. It was held under the aegis of the United Nations Association of Russia (UNA-Russia), as part of the Year of Dialogue Among Civilizations.
The symposium’s participants were greeted by the President of the Buryat Republic, Leonid Potapov; the President of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Seayed Mohammad Khatami; the Deputy Chairman of the RF Federation Council, Vladimir Platonov; and the Chairman of the UNA-Russia and Rector of the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO) Anatoly Torkunov.
At the center of discussion was the ideology of sustainable development as the complex, balanced development of the "nature-population-economic" triad. For the sustainable development of the Baikal Nature Preserve’s areas, a balance must be found between developing the economy in the interests of the local inhabitants, and preserving the legacy of Lake Baikal. Up to now, ecological policy has been limited just to the implementation of nature conservation measures. Today, the problems of Lake Baikal’s conservation must be coordinated with social programs.
As was emphasized at the symposium, favorable opportunities for implementing these plans have come about due to the fact that this territory is an ideal model for the friendly development of inter-ethnic relations, and a dialogue among representatives of the Christian, Buddhist, and other major world civilizations.
The guaranteed development of humanity without crises and wars, in harmony with the environment, and under the conditions of a dignified standard of living for everyone, presupposes not just the absence of conflict among civilizations, or a dialogue between them, but the strengthening of cooperation and interaction among them as well. Also, such development simultaneously makes possible the best opportunities for both current and future generations.
The symposium’s participants approved a communique to the UN calling for them to examine the question of granting the Baikal Region higher status of a World Model Territory for Sustainable Development.
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The convocation of a special session of the UN General Assembly on HIV/AIDS is testimony to the fact that the world has recognized, finally, the scale of this tragedy, said Professor Aleksandr Karaulov, the Head of the United Nations Association of Russia (UNA-Russia) delegation that participated in the working session.
In the world today, there are some 36 million people infected with HIV. Since the moment when the first AIDS cases were registered, around 22 million people have died from the disease. Every month, an estimated 440,000 people are infected with the virus.
The special session, held in New York from June 25 through the 27, 2001, examined the problem of HIV/AIDS from all sides, and significantly stepped up its coordination of national, regional, and international efforts aimed at battling the pandemic.
The session’s participants noted that the foundations for combating the problem of HIV/AIDS are investment in the sustainable development of poor nations; increasing the volume of investment in and accelerating the pace of scientific research to develop a vaccine against HIV; and creating the potential for scientific research, especially in the developing countries. To this end, a resolution was adopted, calling for US$7-10 billion to be spent annually on epidemic-related activities in countries with low and medium standards of living , and in those countries where the epidemic is rapidly growing, by the year 2005.
The session’s recommendations are of extreme importance to Russia, Prof. Karaulov indicated, since the nations of the CIS and Eastern Europe are described as the region where HIV infection is spreading most rapidly. International experts share this alarming evaluation as well. Thus, Dr Peter Piot, the Executive Director of the UN’s UNAIDS Program on HIV/AIDS confirmed that in Russia, more people have been infected in one year than in all the previous years of the epidemic. According to UNAIDS data, the total number of those infected with HIV in Russia is more than 300,000.
The head of the UNA-Russia delegation noted the special importance of passing the session’s closing document – the Declaration of Adhering to the Matter of Combating HIV/AIDS. In it, not only were the main priorities of the battle precisely determined for the first time; a realistic program was also presented for coordinating activities with the comprehensive and active participation of the UN, the nations that participated in the session, and business circles and the private sector. Prof. Karaulov supports the decision to dedicate, in the future, at least one complete day of the General Assembly’s annual session to discussing reports from the Secretary-General on the progress in implementing this Declaration.
