PAN
AMERICAN
HEALTH
ORGANIZATION
WORLD
HEALTH
ORGANIZATION
15th DIRECTING COUNCIL
16th SESSION OF THE REGIONAL COMMITTEE
Washington D.C., August 31 – 11 September 1964
RESOLUTION
CD15.R32
TRAINING IN PREVENTIVE ASPECTS OF PATHOLOGY
THE 15th DIRECTING COUNCIL,
Considering that a favorable attitude toward programs of preventive medicine and public health is
necessary in order to ensure the proper training of new generations of physicians; and
Considering that the literature on human pathology should properly emphasize the preventive
aspects of medicine,
RESOLVES
To instruct the Director of the Pan American Sanitary Bureau to arrange for the preparation and
publication of textbooks on pathology in which the preventive aspects of the medical and social
problems faced by most of the countries of the Americas are properly dealt with.