Contents -- Tables -- Figues -- Boxes -- Message from the Director-General -- Overview -- Stronger health systems: the minimum requirements -- Core values for a global health partnership -- Chapter summaries -- Chapter 1 Global Health: today's challenges -- The global picture -- Life expectancy improves - but not for all -- Global mortality patterns -- Surviving the first five years of life -- Child mortality: global contrasts -- Child mortality: gender and socioeconomic differences -- Child survival: improvements for some -- Causes of death in children -- Adult health at risk: slowing gains and widening gaps -- Global patterns of premature mortality risk -- Adult mortality trends: 15-59 years of age -- Adult mortality: widening gaps -- HIV/AIDS: the leading health threat -- Mortality and disease among older adults -- The growing burden of noncommunicable diseases -- Injuries - a hidden epidemic among young men -- Non-fatal health outcomes -- Chapter 2 Millennium Health Goals: paths to the future -- International commitments at the Millennium Summit -- A compact to end poverty -- New concepts of poverty and development -- The interaction of health and development -- Progress and prospects -- The other side of the compact: Goal 8 -- Trade -- Development assistance -- Debt -- The Millennium Development Goals in practice -- Who owns the MDGs? -- How flexible is the approach? -- How pro-equity are the MDGs? -- Measuring progress -- Reproductive health -- Health systems strengthening -- The MDGs and WHO -- Defining the place of the MDGs in WHO -- Working with others -- Accelerating progress -- Chapter 3 HIV/AIDS: confronting a killer -- The HIV/AIDS epidemic: a brief overview -- A new disease emerges -- The current situation -- The true toll of HIV/AIDS -- Responding to HIV/AIDS: lessons from the past 20 years -- Integrating HIV prevention and care.

Integrated prevention and care: success stories -- Setting a new agenda -- A human rights approach -- Dimensions of good HIV/AIDS control -- WHO's work in the HIV/AIDS fight -- Investing in good HIV prevention and care -- An emergency response to a global emergency -- Chapter 4 Polio Eradication: the final challenge -- A new kind of partnership -- Effectively engaging political leaders -- Finding the funds -- Finding the people -- Prospects for a polio-free future -- Scaling up the delivery of health services -- Chapter 5 SARS: lessons from a new disease -- The first cases -- Origins and international spread -- Detection and response -- The impact of SARS -- Lessons learnt -- Chapter 6 Neglected Global Epidemics: three growing threats -- Cardiovascular disease: the need to act -- The causes are known -- Policies are available -- Acting now and measuring progress -- Tobacco control: strengthening national efforts -- Guiding tobacco control -- National policies and programmes -- Building national capacity -- Integrating tobacco control into health systems -- Road traffic hazards: hidden epidemics -- Sharing responsibility for safety -- Mobilizing action -- Injury prevention, safety and treatment -- Integrating road safety with broader policies -- Chapter 7 Health Systems: principled integrated care -- The core principles of primary health care -- Enduring principles in a changing environment -- Principles in a systems perspective -- The global health workforce crisis -- Size, composition and distribution of the health workforce -- Workforce training -- Migration of health workers -- Paying more and paying differently -- Improving quality: workers and systems -- Responding to the workforce crisis -- Health information: better but not good enough -- The evolution of health information -- An information system driven by primary health care.

Improving information systems -- The Health Metrics Network -- Financing health systems -- Developing sustainable financing -- Unblocking system bottlenecks -- Pro-equity health systems: government's central role -- Patterns of inequitable access to care -- The goal: universal access -- Government stewardship, community involvement -- Building systems based on principles: WHO cooperation with countries -- Statistical Annex -- Explanatory notes -- Annex Table 1 Basic indicators for all Member States -- Annex Table 2 Deaths by cause, sex and mortality stratum in WHO regions, estimates for 2002 -- Annex Table 3 Burden of disease in DALYs by cause, sex and mor tality stratum in WHO regions, estimates for 2002 -- Annex Table 4 Healthy life expectancy (HALE) in all Member States, estimates for 2002 -- Annex Table 5 Selected national health accounts indicators: measured levels of expenditure on health, 1997-2001 -- Annex Table 6 Selected national health accounts indicators: measured levels of per capita expenditure on health, 1997-2001 -- List of Member States by WHO region and mortality stratum -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- X -- Y -- Z.