Unit-I

World Health Organization

By: Navpreet Kaur Bagh
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 Introduction

Specialized, non-political health agency of UN.

Headquarters at Geneva.

Established on 7th April, 1948.

192 membership.

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 History

First International Sanitary Conference (1851)

Pan American Sanitary Bureau (1902)

The health organization of the league of nations (1923)

UNRRA(1943)

Birth of WHO (1945)

International Health Conference (1946)

In 1948, the WHO had 56members

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 Objectives

The attainment by all people’s of the highest level of health.

Current objective- Attainment by all people of the world a level of health that
will permit them to lead a socially & economically productive life

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 Responsibility

• Global Health Matters

• Shaping the Health research agenda (schedule)
• Setting norms & standards
• Articulating evidence based policy option
• Providing technical support to countries
• Monitoring & assessing health trends

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 Structure

• he World Health Assembly is the supreme decision-making body for

WHO.
• It meets each year in May at Geneva , and is attended by delegations
from all 192 Member States . T
• he Executive board has now 34 members.
• One-third of membership is renewed every year.
• Board meets twice a year. The Secretariat is headed by Director
general. The secretariat is comprised of 8000 international public
servants in 2010.

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 Functions

• 1. Prevention & control of specific diseases

• 2. Development of comprehensive health services
• 3. Family health
• 4. Environmental health
• 5. Health statistics
• 6. Bio-medical research
• 7. Health literature with other organization.

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 Queries

Thanks

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