Definitions for world health organization
world health or·ga·ni·za·tion

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1. World Health Organization, WHOnoun

   a United Nations agency to coordinate international health activities and to help governments improve health services

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1. World Health Organization

   The World Health Organization (WHO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations responsible for international public health. Headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, it has six regional offices and 150 field offices worldwide. The WHO was established on 7 April 1948. The first meeting of the World Health Assembly (WHA), the agency's governing body, took place on 24 July of that year. The WHO incorporated the assets, personnel, and duties of the League of Nations' Health Organization and the Office International d'Hygiène Publique, including the International Classification of Diseases (ICD). Its work began in earnest in 1951 after a significant infusion of financial and technical resources.The WHO's mandate seeks and includes: working worldwide to promote health, keeping the world safe, and serve the vulnerable. It advocates that a billion more people should have: universal health care coverage, engagement with the monitoring of public health risks, coordinating responses to health emergencies, and promoting health and well-being. It provides technical assistance to countries, sets international health standards, and collects data on global health issues. A publication, the World Health Report, provides assessments of worldwide health topics. The WHO also serves as a forum for discussions of health issues.The WHO has played a leading role in several public health achievements, most notably the eradication of smallpox, the near-eradication of polio, and the development of an Ebola vaccine. Its current priorities include communicable diseases, particularly HIV/AIDS, Ebola, COVID-19, malaria and tuberculosis; non-communicable diseases such as heart disease and cancer; healthy diet, nutrition, and food security; occupational health; and substance abuse. Its World Health Assembly, the agency's decision-making body, elects and advises an executive board made up of 34 health specialists. It selects the director-general, sets goals and priorities, and approves the budget and activities. The current director-general is Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus of Ethiopia.The WHO relies on contributions from member states (both assessed and voluntary) and private donors for funding. Its total approved budget for 2020–2021 is over $7.2 billion, of which the majority comes from voluntary contributions from member states. Since the late 20th century, the rise of new actors engaged in global health such as the World Bank, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the US President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) and dozens of public-private partnerships for global health have weakened the WHO's role as a coordinator and policy leader in the field.

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1. world health organization

   The World Health Organization (WHO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations responsible for international public health. It aims to build a healthier future for people all over the world and coordinates policies to combat and prevent disease outbreaks. The WHO sets and promotes global health standards and works to strengthen healthcare systems in various countries. Activities include conducting research, providing policy guidance, monitoring health situations, and aiding in health emergency responses.

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1. World Health Organization

   The World Health Organization is a specialized agency of the United Nations that is concerned with international public health. It was established on 7 April 1948, with headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, and is a member of the United Nations Development Group. Its predecessor, the Health Organization, was an agency of the League of Nations. The constitution of the World Health Organization had been signed by all 61 countries of the United Nations by 22 July 1946, with the first meeting of the World Health Assembly finishing on 24 July 1948. It incorporated the Office International d'Hygiène Publique and the League of Nations Health Organization. Since its creation, WHO has been responsible for playing a leading role in the eradication of smallpox. Its current priorities include communicable diseases, in particular, HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis; the mitigation of the effects of non-communicable diseases; sexual and reproductive health, development, and aging; nutrition, food security and healthy eating; occupational health; substance abuse; and drive the development of reporting, publications, and networking. WHO is responsible for the World Health Report, a leading international publication on health, the worldwide World Health Survey, and World Health Day.

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1. World Health Organization

   A specialized agency of the United Nations designed as a coordinating authority on international health work; its aim is to promote the attainment of the highest possible level of health by all peoples.

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1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of world health organization in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

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   The numerical value of world health organization in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of world health organization in a Sentence

1. Eli Coleman:

   Even the World Health Organization is moving to recognize that if they don't focus on the promotion of health in a positive way -- and including pleasure -- people are not going to listen, you've got to put pleasure in!

2. Jessica Ennis-Hill:

   It's a really difficult position because you are thinking about your health and the virus that's going around but also you train so hard for that one moment and you don't want to lose that opportunity, you do have concerns but you have to trust (that) the World Health Organization and the governing bodies and everyone would not put you in unnecessary risk.

3. Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga:

   We decided on these changes in view of the World Health Organization's( WHO) declaration of a global emergency.

4. Los Cabos Trust:

   Twenty days after their return to Austin, Texas, they had already passed the incubation period established by the World Health Organization.

5. Lisa Monaco:

   This recognition that you need diplomacy. Absolutely, you need diplomacy in a pandemic response, that is one of the reasons Both Morrison and Monaco should not be pulling out of the World Health Organization, and the most effective diplomacy can be done by the President and the vice president.

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
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2. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Health_Organization
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4. ^ Wikidata
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