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World Health Organization

Kushal ShahMarch 15, 2012

WHO is a UN Agencythat promotes public

health

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WHO was founded in 1945to be a global health

organizer

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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

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WHO is largely financed byvoluntary donationsfrom member states

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WHO spends its moneyprimarily on Essential health

interventions & Administrative Support

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75% of annual budget is spent on Regional offices

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Millennium Development Goals are designed to combat major socio-

economic & health issues MDGs derived from the

United Nations Millennium Declaration (signed in 2000)

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There are 8 Millennium Development Goals

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

2015

Many MDG will not be met by 2015

Many MDG will not be met by 2015

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

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cancer.html http://www.howtolearn.com/2012/01/what-did-we-learn-about-health-and-h

appiness-in-2011

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demic-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

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.