The World Health Report 1998

Relates the history of WHO from 1948 to 1998; summarizes trends in mortality and disease since 1955; characterizes health problems faced by various age groups over the past fifty years; discusses the main global trends affecting health; reports on the changes in health systems and health care since the launching of the Health for All strategy at the Alma-Alta Conference in 1978; summarizes health trends since 1948 for each of the six WHO regions; gives examples of global partnerships for health; and considers the health agenda for the twenty-first century.