WHO

2. WORLD HEALTH ORGANISATION

3. CONTENT
HISTORY OF WHO
OBJECTIVE
RESPONSIBILITY
ORGANIZATION
REGION
STRUCTURE
FUNCTION

4. INTRODUCTION
Specialized, non-political health
agency of UN.
Headquarters at Geneva.
Established on 7th April, 1948.
192 membership.

5. HISTORY
First International Sanitary Conference (1851)
Pan American Sanitary Bureau (1902)
The health organization of the league of nations
(1923)
UNRRA(1943)
Birth of WHO (1945)
International Health Conference (1946)
In 1948, the WHO had 56members.

6. OBJECTIVE
The attainment by all people’s of the highest
level of health.
Current objective- Attainment by all people of
the world a level of health that will permit
them to lead a socially & economically
productive life.

7. RESPONSIBILTY
Global Health Matters
Shaping the Health research agenda (schedule)
Setting norms & standards
Articulating evidence based policy option
Providing technical support to countries
Monitoring & assessing health trends

8. WHO REGIONAL ORGANIZATION
AFRICA THE AMERICAS EUROPE
SOUTH EAST ASIA WESTERN PACIFIC
EASTERN
MEDITERRANEAN

10. STRUCTURE
THE WORLD
HEALTH
ASSEMBLY
EXECUTIVE
BOARD
SECRETARI
AT

11. The World Health Assembly is the supreme
decision-making body for WHO.
It meets each year in May at Geneva , and is
attended by delegations from all 192 Member
States .
The Executive board has now 34 members.
One-third of membership is renewed every
year.
Board meets twice a year.
The Secretariat is headed by Director general.
The secretariat is comprised of 8000
international public servants in 2010.

12. FUNCTION
1. Prevention & control of specific diseases
2. Development of comprehensive health services
3. Family health
4. Environmental health
5. Health statistics
6. Bio-medical research
7. Health literature with other organization.