Outpatient care (data from the Health Statistics and Medical Technology Agency)

In Canada, the Public Health Agency of Canada is the national agency responsible for public health, emergency preparedness and response, and infectious and chronic disease control and prevention.

The Agency apos s health protection and promotion activities focus particularly upon health care, including disease control and maternal and child health care.

The Ministry of Health is the national implementing agency. Legislative Decree n.

The situation with immunisation in Latvia (data from the Public Health Agency)

The UNRWA Jerusalem Health Centre epitomizes difficulties in refugees' access to Agency services.

The World Health Organization (WHO ) is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) that is concerned with international public health.

The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) was created in June 2000 as the Government of Canada's agency for health research.

Since its creation, the Agency established measures to deal with public health emergencies including

The Public Health Agency focusses on public health issues of importance, ensures clear federal leadership in the case of a health emergency and provides coordinated, coherent response to public health issues domestically and internationally.

Saskatchewan Health has been collaborating with First Nations communities, Health Canada, the Public Health Agency of Canada, and Regional Health Authorities on emergency management planning for pandemic influenza and other disasters and emergency events.

For example the United Nations Population Fund is the lead agency for reproductive health commodities.

The World Health Organization (WHO) and UNHCR spearheaded the Inter Agency Health Evaluations in Humanitarian Crises Initiative, which comprise sectorwide evaluations that examine the collective impact of health sector interventions.

Other components Regional Infection Control Networks, an agency and the integration of the Public Health Laboratories within the Public Health Division are in progress.

Subparagraph (f) The Environmental Protection Agency, the Food and Drugs Agency, and the Health Inspections Agency monitor the implementation of environmental protection and industrial hygiene policies and verify compliance with industrial safety procedures.

UNRWA apos s health programme maintained cooperation with WHO, which seconded six staff to the Agency.

These services cover the control of communicable diseases, maternal and child health care, school health services, health education, out patient treatment at Agency health centres and the subsidizing of in patient treatment at non governmental and private hospitals.

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is an agency of the United States Department of Labor.

Without more funds, the Agency would be unable to maintain the quality of even basic health care.

In total, the Agency lost 2,528 health staff days in the Gaza Strip during the reporting period.

The quality of drinking water The quality of drinking water in Latvia is supervised by the Public Health Agency.

By the end of June 1994, family health services, including family planning, were available in all clinics Agency wide.

The steady increase in demand for health services created by population growth and the rising cost of alternatives to Agency services continued to tax UNRWA apos s health care programme.

refugee camps of Ali Add6 and Holl Holl in Djibouti as the sole UNHCR implementing agency in the health sector.

Following recommendations from leading public health experts in the wake of a SARS outbreak, in September 2004, the Government of Canada announced the launch of the Public Health Agency and the appointment of Canada's first Chief Public Health Officer.

Approximately 56 per cent of cash allocations to the health programme were devoted to the costs of over 3,700 locally recruited health staff Agency wide who implemented all core programme activities.

In response to the tsunami, WHO coordinated a large, multi agency assessment of health needs along the west coast of Aceh.

Source Based in part on the Hygiene Improvement Framework, developed by the United States Agency for International Development Environmental Health Project.

This did not reflect the epidemiological profile of the population, but rather the attendance pattern at Agency primary health care facilities.

For the implementation of the agreements signed, the sponsoring organizations agreed to create an Inter Agency Committee for Health Technology Development.

h Excludes the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) and other internal WHO funds.

Over 500 staff are currently employed in the Agency apos s health programme in Lebanon, including 35 doctors, 104 nurses and 11 dentists. Agency clinics in Lebanon recorded over 700,000 patient visits during 1992.

The Agency also participated in the activities of the Palestinian Authority Ministry of Health in screening for congenital malformations among newborn infants.

Provision of preventive and curative medical services to eligible refugees at UNRWA clinics, health centres and Agency subsidized government and private hospitals

Palestine refugees were entitled to receive a range of Agency services delivered through its education, health, and relief and social services programmes.

Chapter II contains information on the Agency apos s three main programmes in education, health, and relief and social services on the Agency apos s extraordinary measures for Lebanon and the occupied territory and on the Peace Implementation Programme introduced by the Agency in October 1993.

The Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) is an executive agency of the Department of Health in the United Kingdom which is responsible for ensuring that medicines and medical devices work and are acceptably safe.

Congress established the agency under the Occupational Safety and Health Act, which President Richard M. Nixon signed into law on December 29, 1970.

quot The Agency shall seek to accelerate and enlarge the contribution of atomic energy to peace, health and development throughout the world quot .

According to the same Law, the citizens of Republika Srpska and other parties can be insured at a private agency for health care insurance in order to gain health care insurance rights and rights that are not covered under mandatory and extended health care insurance.

The reason de etre of the Agency is atom for peace and as stipulated in article II of the statute of the Agency one of the main pillar of the agency is acceleration and enlargement of contribution of atomic energy to peace, health and prosperity throughout the world.

The inter agency health access and essential package programme ECP (External Cooperation and Partnerships), which started in 10 provinces in 2004, expanded to cover a total of 312 health centres in 16 provinces in 2005.

Within the United Nations system, WHO has a recognized global policy setting, normative and coordination role in public health and is designated by the IASC to be the lead agency on health action during crises.

The number of family doctors (data from the Health Statistics and Medical Technology Agency) The number of primary health care physicians (internists, family doctors, paediatricians) has been stable since 1996 around 24 of all physicians.

The work of the Special Environmental Health Programme established by UNRWA in the Gaza Strip in 1992 in comprehensive planning for the environmental health sector enabled the Agency to respond immediately with concrete ideas for improvements.