When was the World Health Organization established?

jj February 20, 2020
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Contents

  • 1 Establishment of the World Health Organization
  • 2 The most important issues addressed by the organization
    • 2.1 Water for Life
    • 2.2 Improving human life
    • 2.3 Eliminating infectious diseases
  • 3 tasks of the organization
  • 4 References

Establishment of the World Health Organization

The World Health Organization was founded on the seventh day of April 1948 AD, which is a United Nations agency, and aims to enhance international cooperation to improve public health conditions, and perform tasks related to combating epidemics, standardizing drugs, and setting quarantine measures, and the organization celebrates World Health Day on the day The seventh of April every year. [1]

The most important issues addressed by the organization

Water for life

The World Health Organization (WHO) has held the Water for Life initiative, which is a collaborative initiative between many United Nations agencies and local governments, and aims to increase access to clean water and promote sanitation, because more than a billion people in the world have access to polluted water And this water is a source of infectious diseases and parasites, and therefore this initiative resulted in reducing the amount of polluted water, and diseases transmitted through polluted water were eliminated. [2]


Improve human lives

The World Health Organization (WHO) adopts the Millennium Development Goals, which were convened by the United Nations in 2000. The conference included 189 countries, and its goals included improving the lives of people all over the world, by reducing poverty, protecting the environment, combating infectious diseases, and promoting global health. [2]

Elimination of infectious diseases

The World Health Organization aims to eliminate all infectious diseases . It has developed projects to combat those diseases, and it is particularly interested in combating HIV, malaria and other diseases. Therefore, the World Health Organization launched the “3-5” initiative, and this initiative aims To treat three million people living with HIV, and WHO has partnered with private organizations to provide appropriate preventive medicines and treatments to combat malaria. [2]

Organization tasks

The tasks of WHO change based on changing global health needs, including the following: [3]
  • Paying attention to all health tasks and conditions and following them with other countries.
  • Production, translation and dissemination of important knowledge.
  • Setting and implementing standards and norms and enhancing its work.
  • Establishing and adhering to evidence-based ethical options.
  • Promote technical cooperation and build sustainable capacity.