The declaration of Tokyo : report of a WHO Conference on "Towards future health and medical manpower, new strategies in education for the XXIst century"
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TextSeries: Western Pacific reports and studies ; no. 2Publication details: Manila : WHO Regional Office for the Western Pacific, 1986. Description: 40 pISBN: 9290611626Subject(s): Health manpower -- trends | Organization of Health Care and Social DevelopmentNLM classification: W 76Abstract: Summarizes the main discussions and conclusions of a conference focused on the need to reorient the training of health personnel in keeping with the concept of primary health care. The objectives of the conference were to analyze factors which facilitate or impede the acceptance of changes in training institutions and to suggest a course of organizational, administrative, technical, and political actions necessary to introduce change. Discussion centered on the importance of training doctors to be more responsive to community needs, to function in multidisciplinary teams, and to promote a preventive approach to health. The booklet also reproduces the Declaration of Tokyo, which makes a fundamental statement about the importance of changes in health manpower planning, production, and management to the successful implementation of primary health care and the achievement of social equity in the distribution of health services.
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Summarizes the main discussions and conclusions of a conference focused on the need to reorient the training of health personnel in keeping with the concept of primary health care. The objectives of the conference were to analyze factors which facilitate or impede the acceptance of changes in training institutions and to suggest a course of organizational, administrative, technical, and political actions necessary to introduce change. Discussion centered on the importance of training doctors to be more responsive to community needs, to function in multidisciplinary teams, and to promote a preventive approach to health. The booklet also reproduces the Declaration of Tokyo, which makes a fundamental statement about the importance of changes in health manpower planning, production, and management to the successful implementation of primary health care and the achievement of social equity in the distribution of health services.
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