World Health Organization
The World Health Organization (WHO) is an agency of the United Nations and the directing and coordinating authority for health within the United Nations system. It is responsible for "providing leadership on global health matters, shaping the health research agenda, setting norms and standards, articulating evidence-based policy options, providing technical support to countries and monitoring and assessing health trends."[1] When diplomats met to form the United Nations in 1945, one of the issues they wished to address was the establishment of a global health organization, and WHO came into force on 7 April 1948. The date is now celebrated annually as World Health Day.
The current Director-General of WHO, appointed in November 2006, is Dr. Margaret Chan.
External links
- World Health Organization Official website
- Library database (WHOLIS) Index of all WHO publications from 1948 onwards and articles from WHO-produced journals and technical documents from 1985 to the present.
- Bulletin of the World Health Organization The International Journal of Public Health
- World Health Report First published in 1995, each year the report combines an expert assessment of global health, including statistics relating to all countries
References
- ↑ About WHO World Health Organization Accessed July 16 2007
