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World Health Organization
UN public health agency
Also known as: Organisation Mondiale de la Santé, WHO
World Health Organization: vaccinations
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History & Society
- French:
- Organisation Mondiale de la Santé
- Date:
- 1948 - present
- Headquarters:
- Geneva
- Areas Of Involvement:
- public health
- Related People:
- Hiroshi Nakajima
- Margaret Chan
- Jim Yong Kim
- Zsuzsanna Jakab
- Gro Harlem Brundtland
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World Health Organization (WHO), specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) established in 1948 to further international cooperation for improved public health conditions. Although it inherited specific tasks relating to epidemic control, quarantine measures, and drug standardization from the Health Organization of the League of Nations (set up in 1923) and the International Office of Public Health at Paris (established in 1907), WHO was given a broad mandate under its constitution to promote the attainment of “the highest possible level of health” by all peoples. WHO defines health positively as “a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and ...(100 of 798 words)