| WHO - The World Health Organization in 21st Century | | | | regulations and designed to standardize quarantine |
| World | | | | measures without interfering unnecessarily with trade |
| The today World is suffering from many diseases and | | | | and air travel across national boundaries. The central |
| health problems. To face this scenario we need a | | | | WHO Secretariat also keeps member countries |
| universal agency to fight against the new diseases | | | | informed of the latest developments in the use of |
| and health problems. The World Health Organization is | | | | vaccines, cancer research, nutritional discoveries, |
| an agency of the United Nations established in 1948 to | | | | control of drug addiction, and health hazards of nuclear |
| further international cooperation in improving health | | | | radiation. |
| conditions and to fight against the diseases. It is a | | | | Progeria - The symptoms, Diagnosis and cause |
| specialized agency of the United Nations that acts as | | | | * Disease Control |
| a coordinating authority on international public health. | | | | It support process for the control of epidemic and new |
| The Who is Established on 7 April 1948 and its | | | | disease by promoting mass campaigns involving |
| headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland. The World | | | | nationwide vaccination programs, instruction in the use |
| Health Organization agency inherited the mandate and | | | | of antibiotics and insecticides, the improvement of |
| resources of its predecessor, the Health Organization, | | | | laboratory and clinical facilities for early diagnosis and |
| which had been an agency of the League of Nations. | | | | prevention, assistance in providing pure-water supplies |
| Who is originating for specific tasks such as epidemic | | | | and sanitation systems, and health education for |
| control, quarantine measures, and drug standardization. | | | | people living in rural communities. |
| Who major task is to combat disease, especially key | | | | * Consultation and Education |
| infectious diseases, and to promote the general health | | | | It encourages efforts to build up and develop the public |
| of the people of the world. | | | | health administrations of member nations. The |
| The complete Dengue symptoms, Diagnosis and | | | | organization, on request, provides technical advice to |
| Cause | | | | governments in the preparation of long-term national |
| The Functions of World Health Organization (Who) | | | | health plans, sends out international teams of experts |
| The functions of WHO may be divided into three | | | | to conduct field surveys and demonstration projects, |
| major categories - | | | | helps set up local health centres, and offers aid in the |
| * Health Information | | | | development of national training institutions for medical |
| It provides a central stage and research services. It | | | | and nursing personnel. |
| established a codified set of international sanitary | | | | |