World Health Report

The reports are available in multiple languages, and include an expert assessment of a specific global health topic, relating to all countries that are Member States of the organization.

[2] The main purpose of the WHR is to provide policymakers, donor agencies, international organizations and others with the information they need to help them make appropriate health policy and funding decisions.

The report advocates for increased international and national investment in research aimed specifically at improving coverage of health services within and between countries.

The report laid out a ten-year action plan for building national health workforces through better training, recruitment and management processes.

The report said that reducing this toll in line with the Millennium Development Goals would depend largely on every mother and every child having the right to access to health care from pregnancy through childbirth, the neonatal period and childhood.