|Constitution od the Pan American Health Organization|
Constitution of the Pan American Health Organization Adopted by
the Directing Council at its I Meeting, held in Buenos Aires,
Argentina, from 24 September to 2 October 1947. Amendments
approved by the Directing Council at its XIII Meeting,
Resolution XXXVII (1961); at its XVI Meeting, Resolution XXIV
(1965); at its XVIII Meeting, Resolution II (1968); at the XX
Pan American Sanitary Conference, Resolution I (1978); and at
the XLI Meeting of the Directing Council, Resolution VIII
(1999). Progress in the sciences of public health and medicine
together with new and wider concepts of the responsibilities of
Governments in matters of health makes it essential to broaden
the scope of international health work in the Western Hemisphere
and to develop and strengthen the Pan American Sanitary Bureau
in order that it may be able to carry out fully the obligations
imposed by this progress. Acting in accordance with the Final
Act of the XII Pan American Sanitary Conf