https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/9789290210733
"This book documents WHO’s activities and accomplishments during the decade
from 2014 to 2023. It highlights what can be achieved when WHO, its Member
States and partners develop and implement a shared vision based on effective
planning, robust collaboration and transformative leadership. Dr Poonam
Khetrapal Singh, Regional Director of the World Health Organization’s
South-East Asia Region, took on the mantle of leadership for this Region in
2014. Her tenure commenced with the singular success of achieving the
culmination of the Region’s decades-long public health quest: eradication of
polio. This was WHO’s biggest health achievement since the eradication of
smallpox in the 1980s.
That was just the beginning. The far-sighted Flagship Priority Programmes
helped bolster the public health architecture in the Region. A series of
laudable health achievements brought tangible changes to the ‘healthscape’ of
South-East Asia and the state of well-being of its 2 billion people. This
decade also experienced a never-before public health emergency of international
concern in the form of the COVID-19 pandemic. WHO, in collaboration with
partners and countries, ensured minimal disruption to routine health services
and immunization delivery programmes, and continued to extend universal health
coverage even as pandemic prevention and control measures were unleashed with
clinical precision.
This decade has been one of the most eventful in the history of the South-East
Asia Region. Along with the seemingly insurmountable challenges, the book
highlights what can be done through a shared vision, collaboration,
determination and hard work, and above all, robust leadership. Academicians,
policy-makers, public health professionals and others interested in the health
and well-being of this Region’s vast population will find this book
invaluable."
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