Australasian Field Trials of the Mental and Behavioural Disorders Section of the Draft ICD-10

1990 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 313-321 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter M. Ellis ◽  
Garry Welch ◽  
Gordon L. Purdie ◽  
Graham W. Mellsop
Keyword(s):  
Diagnostic System ◽  
World Health Organisation ◽  
Field Trials ◽  
World Health ◽  
Pacific Region ◽  
Western Pacific Region ◽  
Behavioural Disorders ◽  
The World ◽  
Icd 10 ◽  
The Western Pacific

Field trials of the “Mental and Behavioural Disorders” section of the 1987 draft of the ICD-10 have been co-ordinated for the World Health Organisation by a number of regional centres. The design of the field trials and the major features of ICD-10 are briefly discussed. The results of the field trials in the Western Pacific region are described, and compared with the results of the original DSM-Ill field trials. ICD-10 appears to be an acceptably reliable diagnostic system, and the ratings of its feasibility and utility by participating clinicians suggest that it will be seen as a distinct advance over ICD-9.

Campaign Against Tobacco in the World Health Organization Western Pacific Region

2013 ◽  
pp. 247-259
Author(s):  
James Rarick ◽  
Jonathan Klein ◽  
Susan Mercado ◽  
Cherry Chun-Yiu Li ◽  
Emmalita M. Manalac
Keyword(s):  
World Health Organization ◽  
Western Pacific ◽  
World Health ◽  
Pacific Region ◽  
Western Pacific Region ◽  
The World ◽  
Health Organization

scholarly journals Regional event-based surveillance in WHO’s Western Pacific Region

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 11-19
Author(s):  
Christopher Lowbridge ◽  
May Chiew ◽  
Katherine Russel ◽  
Takuya Yamagishi ◽  
Babatunde Olowokure ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Western Pacific ◽  
World Health ◽  
Pacific Region ◽  
Western Pacific Region ◽  
Regional Health ◽  
Health Security ◽  
Health Events ◽  
Event Based ◽  
The Western Pacific

In the World Health Organization’s Western Pacific Region, event-based surveillance has been conducted for more than a decade to rapidly detect and assess public health events. This report describes the establishment and evolution of the Western Pacific Region’s event-based surveillance system and presents an analysis of public health events in the Region. Between July 2008 and June 2017, a total of 2396 events were reported in the Western Pacific Region, an average of 266 events per year. Infectious diseases in humans and animals accounted for the largest proportion of events recorded during this period (73%, 1743 events). Maintaining and strengthening this well-established system is critical to support the rapid detection, assessment and response to public health events to sustain regional health security.

Analysis of Water Safety Plan costs from case studies in the Western Pacific Region

2013 ◽  
Vol 13 (5) ◽  
pp. 1358-1366 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zai Kang Chang ◽  
Mien Ling Chong ◽  
Jamie Bartram
Keyword(s):  
Drinking Water ◽  
Water Supply ◽  
Western Pacific ◽  
Drinking Water Supply ◽  
World Health ◽  
Pacific Region ◽  
Water Safety ◽  
Western Pacific Region ◽  
Operational Monitoring ◽  
The Western Pacific

Unsafe water remains a significant public health threat in high and low income countries. The World Health Organization (WHO) promotes Water Safety Plans (WSPs) as the most effective means of consistently ensuring the safety of a drinking-water supply. Although health benefits of WSP implementation have been shown, there is a lack of information relating water supplier characteristics to expected costs. Costing practices were adapted from food quality management studies and applied to six water suppliers from the Western Pacific Region, as designated by WHO. The explanation building procedure was used to develop understanding of relationships between drinking-water supply agency (DWSA) characteristics and WSP implementation costs. The results indicate that costs associated with WSP implementation are expected to be low for developed DWSAs; however, for developing DWSAs, there is high variability in costs which indicates further research may not improve generalized WSP cost estimations. Furthermore, developing DWSAs experience large and highly variable capital and operational monitoring costs. The capital and operational monitoring improvements are necessary to achieving a safe water supply and may require ongoing financial and technical resources to execute.

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