Title of the centre:
WHO Collaborating Centre for Health & Biomedical Terminology
Director / Head:
Dr Christian GALINSKI
Institution:
Standards development unit
International Information Centre for Terminology (INFOTERM)
Address:
Gymnasiumstrasse 50
A-1190
Town:
Vienna
Country:
AUSTRIA
Region:
EURO
Phone:
(43) 664 344 6181
Fax:
(43-1) 587 6990
Date of Designation:
18/Feb/1993
Last Redesignation:
06/Aug/2009
Expiry:
06/Aug/2013
Date of Discontinuation:
Terms of Reference:
- To advise & assist WHO in evaluating existing classifications & clinical terminologies with regard to their compliance to international standards for the sake of content interoperability in the service of health information systems in Member States.
- To plan & implement terminology training schemes, particularly with a view to support the implementation of WHO classifications and terminologies (incl. the Family of International Classifications) in developing countries and large minority language communities.
- To implement regularly mechanisms for mutual information, consultation, support & co-ordination of such activities as may be engaged into by the WHO.
- To assist in introducing new working items into international standardization (particularly with respect to multilingual structured content), whenever WHO identifies the need for a standard.
- To provide technical advice, on request, to WHO at international coordination bodies, such as the Management Group (MoU/MG) of the ITU-ISO-IEC-UN/ECE Memorandum of Understanding concerning the coordination of standardization efforts in eBusiness (incl. product classification, eHealth etc.)"
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Subjects:
- Health information; statistics; measurement & trend assessment
- Leishmaniasis
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Types of activity:
- Information dissemination
- Product development (guidelines; manual; methodologies; etc.)
- Providing technical advise to WHO
WHO organization wide expected result:
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10.4 - Country health-information systems that provide and use high-quality and timely information for health planning and for monitoring progress towards national and major international goals strengthened. |
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Responsible Officer:
USTUN Tevfik Bedirhan
Phone:
+41 22 79 13609
Technical Counterpart:
LOYOLA ELIZONDO Enrique Gerardo
Phone:
+45 39171482
Access to annual progress reports and the current workplan (this is accessible to WHO Staff Members only):
Link to eWork
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