cision of WHO to turn its focus from treatment to a more proactive health policy for disease prevention”, adding his “appreciation for the efforts made by WHO so far for the enhancement of people’s health” (13).
2.3 Participation in WHO Executive Board At the thirty-seventh World Health Assembly in 1984, the Republic of Korea was designated as a Member State entitled to name a person to serve on the WHO Executive Board for the first time in 26 years. The Government of the Republic of Korea designated Lee Sung-woo, Director-General of the Bureau of Health Service Policy at the Ministry of Health and Social Affairs, as an Executive Board member for three years (16). At the forty-eighth World Health Assembly in 1995, the Republic of Korea was again designated as a Member State entitled to appoint a person to serve as a member of the WHO Executive Board. The Government of the Republic of Korea appointed Shin Young-soo, Professor of Health Policy and Management at Seoul National University College of Medicine, as an Executive Board member for three years (17).
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The forty-seventh session of the Regional Committee discussed the following: 1) implementation of the Programme Budget for 1994–1995 and the introduction of the Programme Budget for 1998–1999; 2) ways to implement the “New Horizon in Health” strategy to shift the focus of health policy from treatment to proactive disease prevention and health promotion; 3) annual report on sexually transmitted infections and AIDS; 4) involvement of Member States in UNAIDS projects; 5) poliomyelitis occurrences in the Western Pacific Region and the involvement of Member States in poliomyelitis eradication efforts; 6) report on visits to the WHO project sites in New Zealand and Viet Nam; 7) revision of the “Health for All by the Year 2020” strategy; 8) the changing role of WHO in accordance with global trends; 9) methods to increase the participation of women in the work of WHO in the Western Pacific Region; and 10) preparation of measures to deal with a rapidly aging population and promotion of research on the health of the older people (14). As a subject of concern, the Government
of the Republic of Korea raised the prevention of infectious diseases, such as cholera, between the two Koreas (15).
QQ A delegation of the Republic of Korea, including Dr Shin Young-soo, then a WHO Executive Board Member (far right), at the World Health Assembly in Geneva in 1998.
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