World Health Organization
The World Health Organization, or WHO, is located in the Geneva, Switzerland and is an international unit that is comprised of 191 countries that focuses on the improvement and protection of the whole population's health all throughout the globe. Its associated states are allocated into six geographic regions; namely, the Western Pacific (HQ in Manila, Philippines), the Americas (HQ in Washington, DC), the Eastern Mediterranean (HQ in Cairo, Egypt), Africa (HQ in Brazzaville, Congo), Southeast Asia (HQ in New Delhi, India) and Europe (Copenhagen, Denmark.
The director general manages the organization's mission to maintain, uphold and develop health through the means of quality education, health programs, supervision of disease-related epidemics, taking action in urgent situations as well as supporting the needed programs and the nutritional support.
History and Undertaking
In the year 1945, three physicians, Brazil's Dr. Geraldo de Paula Souza, Norway's Karl Evang and China's Szeming Sze, proposed the conception of a sole health organization that functions to deal with the health needs of people around the world. Their combined assertion to institute an intercontinental health organization surfaced after it was approved as the World Health Organization in 1946.
The overture of the establishment classifies health as “a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.” The first major concerns are comprised of the project to tackle the issue of malaria, tuberculosis, maternal and child wellbeing, nutrition and ecological cleanliness, public health management and mental health. The World Health Organization also included their initial approach on the issues of venereal, parasitic and viral diseases.
Programs
The World Health Organization also provided conceptions on the matter of health as well as the development of nutritional status all through programs that deals with:
- Water safeness and basic cleanliness
- Food, food wellbeing and nutrition
- Immunizations
- Education for health
- Control and preventive measures of local widespread disease
- Treatment and medication of common diseases, ailments and injuries
- Specifications of essential drugs
World Health Organization's programs also have the Applied Nutrition Program, which started in the year 1960 and tries to develop the worldwide population's nutritional health. Careful planning have been made to encourage breastfeeding, distribution of additional foods, providing health education as well as the support in producing foods that will improve local diets.
Plans like these include several factors that the organization should address in each region's particular needs. The aims of action to be achieved are the diet safeness, nutritional education and the healthy preferences of living.