WHO Technical Report Series 834
This report contains the collective views of an international group of experts and does not necessary represent the decisions or the stated policy of the World Health Organization
World Health Organization
Geneva 1993
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 some 185 countries exchange their knowledge and experience with the aim of making possible the attainment by all citizens of the world by the year 2000 of a level of health that will permit them to lead a socially and economically productive life.
By means of direct technical cooperation with its Member States, and by stimulating such cooperation among them, WHO promotes the development of comprehensive health services, the prevention and control of diseases, the improvement of environmental conditions, the development of human resources for health, the coordination and development of biomedical and health services research, and the planning and implementation of health programmes.
These broad fields of endeavour encompass a wide variety of activities, such as developing systems of primary health care that reach the whole population of Member countries; promoting the health of mothers and children; combating malnutrition; controlling malaria and other communicable diseases including tuberculosis and leprosy; coordinating the global strategy for the prevention and control of AIDS; having achieved the eradication of smallpox, promoting mass immunization against a number of other preventable diseases; improving mental health; providing safe water supplies; and training health personnel of all categories.
Progress towards better health throughout the world also demands international cooperation in such matters as establishing international standards for biological substances, pesticides, and Pharmaceuticals; formulating environmental health criteria; recommending international nonproprietary names for drugs; administering the International Health Regulations; revising the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems; and collecting and disseminating health statistical information.
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WHO Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
WHO Expert Committee on Specifications for Pharmaceutical Preparations
WHO Expert Committee on Specifications for Pharmaceutical Preparations:
thirty-third report.
(WHO technical report series; 834)
1. Drug industry
2. Drugs - standards
3. Quality control
I. Series
ISBN 9241208341 |
(NLM Classification: QV 771) |
ISSN 0512-3054 |
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