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World Health Organization

World Health Organization. Kushal Shah March 15, 2012. WHO is a UN Agency that promotes public health. www.who.int. WHO was founded in 1945 to be a global health organizer. www.who.int. WHO plays a diverse role in Public Health . Objectives Providing leadership

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World Health Organization

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  1. World Health Organization Kushal Shah March 15, 2012

  2. WHO is a UN Agencythat promotes public health www.who.int

  3. WHO was founded in 1945to be a global health organizer www.who.int

  4. WHO plays a diverse role in Public Health • Objectives • Providing leadership • Shaping the research agenda and stimulating dissemination • Setting standards, promoting and monitoring their implementation • Articulating ethical and evidence based policy options • Providing technical support, catalyzing change • Monitoring the health situation and assessing health trends www.who.int

  5. WHO is largely financed byvoluntary donationsfrom member states www.who.int

  6. WHO spends its moneyprimarily on Essential health interventions & Administrative Support www.who.int

  7. 75% of annual budget is spent on Regional offices www.who.int

  8. Millennium Development Goals are designed to combat major socio-economic & health issues • MDGs derived from the United Nations Millennium Declaration (signed in 2000) www.who.int

  9. There are 8 Millennium Development Goals www.who.int

  10. 3/10 regions are expected to reach at least 50% of goals by 2015

  11. Many MDG will not be met by 2015

  12. Many MDG will not be met by 2015

  13. WHO is not perfect • Centralized and Bureaucratic • WHO’s definition of Health • Happiness vs. Health • Overextending • Infringement of Liberty • Required inoculation Centre for Health Program Evaluation, www.projectcensored.org, ABC News

  14. References • http://syndicam.com/cartoons/june-2009/2533938 • http://www.jolkona.org/blog/mdgs-and-jolkona/ • http://www.englishblog.com/2011/06/cartoon-cell-phones-may-cause-cancer.html • http://www.howtolearn.com/2012/01/what-did-we-learn-about-health-and-happiness-in-2011 • http://8goals.ca/site/?q=node/144/ • http://www.uniosil.org/development-goals.html • http://www.projectcensored.org/top-stories/articles/the-h1n1-swine-flu-pandemic-11-manipulating-data-to-enrich-drug-companies/ • http://abcnews.go.com/Health/SwineFlu/swine-flu-pandemic-world-health-organization-scientists-linked/story?id=10829940#.T2ERZ2JSTEU

  15. References • www.who.int • www.un.org • http://mdgs.un.org • http://whqlibdoc.who.int/publications/2009/ • World Health Organization. Working for Health. Switzerland: World Health Organization, 2007. Print. • Millennium Development Goals Reports: An Assessment 1 (2003). Print • United Nations, The Millennium Development Goals Report 2011, June 2011, ISBN 978-92-1-101244-6 • WHO, Programme budget 2012-2013, October 2011. • Centre for Health Program Evaluation, A Critique of the World Health Oganisation’s Evaluation of Health System Performance, 2001.

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