World Health Organization

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World Health Organization

Functions

Developing international health regulations

Putting emphasis o other "millenium development goals"

Environmental degradation

Literacy

Disease

Hunger

Poverty

Have worked through years in

Actually Covid-19 control

Take effective action regarding globalization of trade, travel, information, human rights, ideas and disease

AIDS

Polio Eradication

Maternal morbidity rates

Childhood immunizations

Family planning

Smallpox eradication

What is it

This organization has been working for over 60 years

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It is a part of the United Nations that focuses on global health issues

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green = dates, names, places, and formulas

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Purposes

Pluralism in global health

Preventing noncommunicable disseases

Researching factors such as social, economical and environmental issues.

Increasing access to medical products

Structure

Expert commitees are sub-committees of the WHO focused in aboarding some issues more professionaly and specifically, some examples are:

Expert committee on Selection and use of essential medicines

Expert committee on drug dependence

Expert committee on biological standarization

Expert committee on specifications for pharmaceutical preparations

The World Health Assembly, attended by all the delegations, which focuses on a specific agenda prepared by the executive board.

Working towards universal health coverage

Determine the director general

Supervise financial policies

Determine the policies of the organization

Director General: Dr. Tedros Adhanom