Special Health Problems of Island Developing and other Specially Disadvantaged Countries
Report of a Meeting of Experts, London, 21–25 January 1980

This is the report of an expert group, convened to focus on the special health problems of island developing and other specially disadvantaged countries. The members of the expert group were invited to examine the problems and to make recommendations as to how they should most effectively be tackled, by individual governments, by regional groups of countries and by the Commonwealth Secretariat and other agencies, within available resources.
This report includes a list of the conclusions reached, a summary of the discussions, an introductory paper prepared by the Secretariat, papers prepared by participants who led the discussion on particular topics, and other papers contributed by participants.
This report includes a list of the conclusions reached, a summary of the discussions, an introductory paper prepared by the Secretariat, papers prepared by participants who led the discussion on particular topics, and other papers contributed by participants.
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Regional and International Cooperation
The meeting discussed the advantages of regional collaboration as a means of supplementing the limited resources of island developing and other small disadvantaged countries. The need for an effective organisational framework was emphasised in the Commonwealth Secretariat's introductory paper which, while accepting that the details had to be worked out in individual regions, pointed out that agreement at the highest level of decision-making on the machinery for collaboration was required.
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