World Health Organization
Structure
Director General: Dr. Tedros Adhanom
The World Health Assembly, attended by all the delegations, which focuses on a specific agenda prepared by the executive board.
Determine the policies of the organization
Supervise financial policies
Determine the director general
Working towards universal health coverage
Expert commitees are sub-committees of the WHO focused in aboarding some issues more professionaly and specifically, some examples are:
Expert committee on specifications for pharmaceutical preparations
Expert committee on biological standarization
Expert committee on drug dependence
Expert committee on Selection and use of essential medicines
Purposes
What is it
It is a part of the United Nations that focuses on global health issues
This organization has been working for over 60 years
Functions
Have worked through years in
Smallpox eradication
Family planning
Childhood immunizations
Maternal morbidity rates
Polio Eradication
AIDS
Take effective action regarding globalization of trade, travel, information, human rights, ideas and disease
Actually Covid-19 control
Putting emphasis o other "millenium development goals"
Poverty
Hunger
Disease
Literacy
Environmental degradation
Developing international health regulations