2. World Health Organization
• WHO is the directing and coordinating authority for health within the
United Nations system.
• It is responsible for providing leadership on global health
matters, shaping the health research agenda, setting norms and
standards, articulating evidence-based policy options, providing
technical support to countries and monitoring and assessing health
trends.
3. World Heath Organization
• The ‘WHO’ run a variety of programmes such as leprosy
elimination, food safety, and dengue check-ups.
• They hope that these actions will help to benefit those who are in
need of desperate aid.
• This will make the earth a better and healthier place
4. History of WHO
• When diplomats met to form the United Nations in 1945, one of the
things they discussed was setting up a global health organization
• WHO’s Constitution came into force on 7 April 1948 – a date we now
celebrate every year as World Health Day
5. Impact of WHO
• WHO's help has contributed to a 40% fall in the number of deaths
from tuberculosis between 1990 and 2010
6. Credits, Team JERM
• http://www.who.int/en/
• Joel Tan
• Ethan Lee
• Richard Ng
• Marcus Cheong
