2010: Health Systems Financing The
World Health Report 2010 focused on the topic of
universal health care coverage, and how countries can modify their financing systems to move towards this goal. The report provided an action agenda for countries at all stages of development, and proposed ways that the international community can better support efforts in low-income countries to achieve universal coverage and improve
population health outcomes.
2008: Primary health care The theme of the
World Health Report 2008 was the renewal of
primary health care, and the need for
health systems to respond better and faster to the health care challenges of a changing world.
2007: Global public health security The main concern of the
World Health Report 2007 was how the world is at increasing risk of disease outbreaks,
epidemics, industrial accidents, natural disasters and other health emergencies which can rapidly become threats to global
public health security. The report described how the new
International Health Regulations help countries to work together to identify risks and act to contain and control them.
2006: Working together for health The
World Health Report 2006 (WHR2006) highlighted the estimated shortage of almost 4.3 million doctors, nurses, midwives, and other
health human resources worldwide, calling the situation a "global health workforce crisis". The report laid out a ten-year action plan for building national health workforces through better training, recruitment and management processes.
2005: Make every mother and child count The
World Health Report 2005 focused on the fact that almost 11 million children under five years of age die annually from causes that are largely preventable, and another half a million women die in
pregnancy,
childbirth or soon after. The report said that reducing this toll in line with the
Millennium Development Goals would depend largely on every mother and every child having the right to access to
health care from pregnancy through childbirth, the neonatal period and childhood.
2004: Changing history The topic of the
World Health Report 2004 was the global
HIV/AIDS pandemic.
2003: Shaping the future The
World health report 2003 examined the
global health situation and some of the major threats to health. The report advocated that major improvements in
health for all were within reach, and that progress depended on collaboration among governments, international institutions, the private sector and civil society to build stronger health systems.
2002: Reducing risks, promoting healthy life The
World health report 2002 described the amount of
disease,
disability and
death in the world that could be attributed to a selected number of the most important
risks to human health. It projected how much this burden could lowered in the next 20 years if the same risk factors were reduced.
2001: Mental health The largely neglected area of
mental health was the core focus of the
World health report 2001.
2000: Health systems: improving performance The
World Health Report 2000 introduced a conceptual framework and measurement approach to examine and compare aspects of
health systems around the world, and better understand the complex factors that explain how health systems perform. The report provided an
assessment of the performance of national health systems for all countries. == See also ==