Enhancing capacity-building in global public health : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly

Urges Member States to further integrate public health into their national economic and social development strategies, including through the establishment and improvement of effective public health mechanisms, in particular networks of disease surveillance, response, control, prevention, treatment and information exchange and the recruitment and training of national public health personnel; calls upon Member States and the international community to raise awareness of good public health practices, including through education and the mass media; calls for the improvement of the global public health preparedness and response systems, including systems of prevention and monitoring of infectious diseases, to better cope with major diseases, including in cases of global outbreaks of new diseases; requests the Secretary-General to include observations on the issue of enhancing capacity-building in global public health in his report on the follow-up to the outcome of the Millennium Summit of UN to be submitted to the General Assembly at its 59th session.

Adopted without vote, 43rd plenary meeting

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Issued in GAOR, 58th sess., Suppl. no. 49.