Authorization
WHO Documentation Centre in Russia Based on the Central Public Health research Institute Of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation
The WHO Documentation Centre based on Central Public Health Research Institute of the Ministry of Health of Russia was established in 1994 by the Order of the Ministry of Health No.124 of June 22, 1994.
The goal of the WHO documentation centre is disseminating the information provided by the WHO Regional Office for Europe as widely as possible within the territory of Russia.
The new politics and strategy pursued by the WHO Regional Office for Europe for information products and services aim at providing healthcare policy makers in the European region and beyond with premium quality, relevant and valid information.
The WHO Documentation Centre should fulfill the following core functions:
- Organization and management
Collection, indexation, cataloguing and storage of WHO information products, provision of information upon request on different health problems, and collaboration with other health libraries. - Dissemination
Electronic and/or hard copy dissemination of WHO information products to the relevant target audiences within the country, as well as to national medical, public health and professional journals that should receive updated copies of the WHO information products. - Evaluation
Evaluation of the info utilization and feedback from information consumers on different forms of the WHO information products (i.e. number of loans).
Currently available at the Documentation Centre:
- More than 1700 documents issued by the WHO in Russian, English, French, and German, which have been received from the WHO Regional Office for Europe in Copenhagen, and the WHO Headquarters, Geneva;
- WHO Documentation Centre database in English and in Russian with summaries in Russian of all WHO publications available at the Centre.
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