The PAHO Program in Public Administration
| Author | Stuart Portner |
| DOI | 10.1177/002085236302900201 |
| Date | 01 June 1963 |
| Published date | 01 June 1963 |
| Subject Matter | Articles |
The
PAHO
Program
in
Public
Administration
by
Stuart
PORTNER,
Ph.D.,
Chief
of
Administration,
Pan
American
Sanitary
Bureau,
Regional
Office
of
the
World
Health
Organization.
UDC
61 :
061.1
(7/8) :
351.77
The
meeting
of
public
health
and
public
administration
officials
of
the
Ministries
of
Health
of
the
governments
of
South
America,
held
at
Bogota,
Colombia,
in
December
1962,
marked
the
successful
completion
of
the
fourth
year
of
an
unusual
cooperative
effort
of
the
governments
of
the
Americas,
the
United
Na-
tions
and
the
Pan
American
Health
Organ-
ization,
Regional
Office
of
the
World
Health
Organization,
to
better
the
organization
and
administration
of
the
public
health
agencies
of
the
Western
Hemisphere
(1).
After
five
days
of
a
lively
and
penetrating
review
of
the
management
of
these
establishments,
the
participants,
among
whom
were
numbered
a
vice-minister,
a
number
of
directors
general,
and
other
leading
technical
and
administrative
officials
of
the
public
health
agencies,
recom-
mended
a
series
of
innovations
in
planning,
programming,
financing,
organization,
process,
and
practice
looking
toward
the
adoption
and
extension
of
modern
management
techniques
in
these
ministries
(2).
This
meeting
represented
one
project
in
a
multi-phased
effort
in
administration
un-
dertaken
in
recent
years
by
the
Pan
American
Health
Organization,
the
oldest
international
public
health
organization
in
operation.
Organ-
ized
in
1902,
as
the
International
Sanitary
Bureau,
this
agency
has
had
a
continuous
career
of
more
than
60
years
of
service
to
the
governments
and
the
peoples
of
the
Americas
as
a
coordinating
facility
in
public
health
for
the
interchange
of
information,
development
of
regulation,
guides,
and
standards,
training
of
technical
personnel,
and
the
rendering
of
advisory
and
related
services
(3).
Through
agreements
with
the
World
Health
Organiza-
tion,
in
1949,
and
the
Organization
of
Ameri-
can
States,
in
1950,
it
holds
the
unique
distinc-
tion
in
international
organization
life
of
being
a
specialized
agency
of
the
Organization
of
American
States,
and
through
its
role
as
a
regional
establishment
of
WHO,
by
an
organ-
izational
second
degree
of
consanguinity,
being
associated
with
the
United
Nations,
as
well
(4).
The
Pan
American
Sanitary
Bureau,
the
secretariat
of
the
Pan
American
Health
Organization,
in
1963
has
a
staff
of
approxi-
mately
1000
persons,
including
medical
offi-
cers,
engineers,
nurses,
statisticians,
adminis-
trators,
and
other
specialists
who
are
engaged
in
more
than
300
projects
throughout
the
Americas.
Origin
of
PAHO
Public
Administration
Progrmn
The
meeting
on
the
Organization
and
Ad-
ministration
of
Public
Health
Services
in
Bo-
gota,
and
the
general
program
from
which
it
derived
had
their
origin
in
a
resolution
of
the
X
Directing
Council
of
the
Pan
American
Health
Organization
in
1957
and
in
a
first
(1)
Organización
Panamericana
de
la
Salud,
Informe
del
Seminario
sobre
la
Organización
y
Administración
de
los
Servicios
de
Salud
Pùblica.
Washington,
1962.
(2)
Ibid.,
pp.
42-53.
(3)
For
studies
of
the
origin
and
development
of
PAHO
to
1958,
see
Dr.
Miguel
E.
Bustamante,
The
Pan
American
Sanitary
Bureau:
Half
a
Century
of
Health
Activities,
1902-1954.
Washington.
1955.
An
earlier
study,
relating
the
growth
of
the
Organization
until
1947
is
Dr.
Aristides
Moll,
The
Pan
American
Sanitary
Bureau :
its
origin,
development,
and
achievements.
Washington,
1948.
(4)
See
Pan
American
Health
Organization,
Basic
Documents,
4th
edition.
Washington,
1962.
Pp.
41-43
and
44-49
for
the
texts
of
the
agreements.
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