World Health Organization : (Emro) Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean, Traditional Practices, Emro-Technical Publications, Report No. 13: Guidelines for the Development of a Food and Nutrition Surveillance System for Countries in the Eastern Mediterranean Region

By Hussein A. Gezairy, Dr.

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Title:	World Health Organization : (Emro) Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean, Traditional Practices, Emro-Technical Publications, Report No. 13: Guidelines for the Development of a Food and Nutrition Surveillance System for Countries in the Eastern Mediterranean Region
Author:	Hussein A. Gezairy, Dr.
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Language:	English
Subject:	Health., Public health, Wellness programs
Collections:	Medical Library Collection, World Health Collection
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Publisher:	World Health Organization


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Introduction Following a visit by a delegation from the French ministry responsible for health to the WHO Regional Office for Europe in Copenhagen, it was decided to organize, in France, a meeting on the progress of the International Drinking Water Supply and Sanitation Decade, during which a number of specific issues would be studied. It was agreed between the French Government and the Regional Office that the meeting should be held at the International Water Centre in Nancy. At a separate ceremony presided over by Mr Girard, Director-General of Health, representing Mr Seguin, Minister of Social Affairs and Employment, and Mrs Barzach, Minister responsible for health and the family, the International Water Centre was designated as collaborating centre for water supply and sanitation. The meeting was attended by 15 representatives, who had the opportunity to describe the progress of the Decade, the policies applied and the results attained so Ear in their countries. The following points were discussed: - aims and methods of health action in the framework of the Decade, both on a routine basis and in emergencies (natural disasters, accidental pollution); - information needed for assessment of the Decade; - form of presentation of the information and significance of the data provided vis-a-vis the information system producing them; - essential information for making choices in respect of policy on quantitative and qualitative improvements. The tools needed to ensure a multidisciplinary approach to health policy on water supply and sanitation were stressed once again. The involvement of the community and all partners in the process requires an adequate knowledge of the situation and satisfactory exchange of information among the,partners. The very open discussions that took place, bringing together the views of the participants from countries whose problems were in some cases very diverse, led to a series of recommendations addressed both to international bodies and to governments.

Table of Contents
CONTENTS 1 . Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 2 . International organizations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 2.1 World Health Organization (headquarters) . . . . . . . . . . . 2 2.2 World Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 2.3 Office of the United Nations Disaster Relief Coordinator (UNDRO ) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 3 . WHO collaborating centres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 3.1 Centre for Research on Farm Mechanization. Agricultural Engineering. Water and Forests (CEMAGREF). Lyon. France . . 4 3.2 International Water Centre (NAN.C.1.E.). Nancy. France . . . . 5 3.3 International Reference Centre for Community Water Supply and Sanitation (IRC). The Hague. Netherlands . . . . . . . . . . 6 3.4 Water Research Centre (WRC). Medmenham. United Kingdom . . . . 6 3.5 Research Centre for Water Resources Development (VITUKI). Budapest. Hungary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 .. Assessment of the International Water Decade in Europe . . . . . . . 7 4.1 Regional situation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 4.2 Country situation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 5 . A sanitary approach to water suppLy . . . . . . . . . . 23 5.1 Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 5.2 Research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 5.3 Distribution systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 5.h Quality criteria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 5.5 Sanitary monitoring of water quality . . . . . . . . . . . 3& 6 . Information systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 6.1 Data collection and processing . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 6.2 Information and the consumer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 7 . Emergency situations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 7.1 Disaster preparedness programme of the WHO Regional Office for Europe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 7.2 Transborder pollution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 7.3 Accidental polLution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 8 . Recommendations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 8.1 International le.v el . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I42 8.2 Country level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I43 Annex 1 . Proposal for statistical assessment of the International WaterDecade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4& Annex 2 . List of participants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48