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World health Organization

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World Health Organization (WHO) was founded in April 7, 1948 when twenty-six United Nations member states, including Ukraine, ratified its Constitution. Now there are 192 member states, including all United Nations Member States except Liechtenstein.

WHO's objective is the attainment by all peoples of the highest possible level of health. Health is defined in WHO's Constitution as a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. WHO activities has many forms, they are: strengthening national health services; preparing more and better health workers; controlling or eradicating epidemic diseases; protecting mother and child health; improving sanitation and water supply; and making all other efforts to raise health level.

One of the main services carried by WHO is the service of epidemic warnings. The five main world epidemics of history as plague, cholera, smallpox, typhus, and yellow fever are still a great danger in our time. WHO also informs national health services about outbreaks of viral diseases as influenza and poliomyelitis.

Besides an epidemic information WHO provides services, which are needed by all the countries, such as an international quarantine measures, world health statistics, international standardization of medicines and vaccines, and development of medical research.

The daily work of WHO is carried out by a medical and administrative staff of about 2.400 international officers from different countries. These officers are stationed at headquarters in Geneva, in Regional Offices, or with special centers working on every continent.

WHO's work is focused on four interrelated strategic directions. Strategic Direction 1: reducing

excess mortality, morbidity, and disability. Strategic Direction 2: promoting healthy lifestyles and reducing risk factors to human health. Strategic Direction 3: developing health systems. Strategic Direction 4: framing an enabling policy and creating an institutional environment for the health sector.

 

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