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World Health Organization

The World Health Organization (WHO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations dedicated to addressing global health issues. Led by Director General Dr. Tedros Adhanom, the WHO operates through the World Health Assembly, which sets the agenda and policies, and supervises financial matters.

World Health Organization

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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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