The United States and Israel will sign a health cooperative agreement here tomorrow that incorporates services in seven areas, including research and direct assistance. The ceremony will be conducted in the conference room of Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, Patricia Roberts Harris. She will sign for the United States and Health Minister Eliezer Shostak will sign for Israel. HEW officials said that while the two countries had been cooperating in various fields of health for many years, this will be their first formal agreement.
The areas of mutual interest incorporated in the agreement include planning health and manpower services; health economics and financing; health information; public health related to the environment, biomedical research; and research in the evolution of health services. In the United States programming for this agreement, officials said, each field will have an American specialist working with the Israelis. The cooperative effort will begin immediately after the signing of the agreement. Exchanges of specialists can seminars in both countries will be conducted to explore services and research to be undertaken.
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