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Acceleration of efforts to eradicate polio in the Region
More than 40 WHO regional staff gathered for the 3-day WHO Regional Polio Staff Meeting, which was held in Muscat from 1 to 3 September 2014. The aims of the meeting were to discuss ways to prevent outbreaks and stop transmission in the Region. The group of medical and public health professionals prioritized activities targeting high risk...
WHO provides advice on strengthening preconception care
A WHO mission visited Oman from 8 to 12 June 2014 to advice on strengthening the preconception care services provided in Oman. Evidence demonstrates that preconception care interventions contribute to a wide range of improve health and development outcomes. Thus, these services can build on the highly accessible antenatal care services provided which...
Oman hosts Health Vision 2050 experts
The Health Vision 2050 being developed by the Ministry of Health of Oman is serving as a model for strategic planning in health. During the first half of 2014, WHO facilitated a series of missions to review key strategic studies carried out as part of the work for Health Vision 2050, including health technologies, nutrition, primary health care, and...
Expert from Aga Khan University visits Oman
As part of a regional study commissioned by the WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean an expert from Aga Khan University visited Oman to review the integration of noncommunicable diseases in primary health care in Oman. This information obtained will be incorporated into the regional study which aims to provide a situation analysis of...
Regional training on causality assessment of adverse events following immunization
The Ministry of Health of Oman, in close collaboration with WHO, hosted a WHO regional training workshop on revised WHO methodology for causality assessment of adverse events following immunization in Muscat, Oman, on 23–26 June 2014. More than 20 participants from various countries throughout the Eastern Mediterranean Region were in Oman to...
Establishing a national health accounts system in Oman
In its efforts to improve health system performance the Ministry of Health of Oman is commited to establishing a national health accounting system. National health accounts (NHA) provide a systematic method to monitor the financial resource flows of a country’s health system. Two years ago, with WHO support, Oman embarked on initiating an NHA...
