Professional Documents
Culture Documents
-WHO-
Elizabeth Clinch
http://www.financialbuzz.com/the-world-health-organization-in-need-of-help-296248
http://www.quickmeme.com/Skeptical-Third-World-Kid/page/101/
https://twitter.com/thewho
We will be covering...
1.WHO History
2.Current Leaders
3.Where WHO Works
4.What WHO Does
a.Video
5.How WHO Works
6.Funding
7.WFOT & WHO
8.Health Definition
9.Five Take Away Points
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History
1920s-League of Nations: The Health Organization
1945-United Nations formed
WHO est.on April 7, 1948
World Health Day
http://www.who.int/about/history/en/
http://www.who.int/features/history/1940_1959/en/
http://www.who.int/campaigns/world-health-day/2016/posters/en/
Current Leaders
Director-General Dr. Margaret Chan
Regional Director of the Americas Dr. Carissa Etienne
http://www.who.int/about/en/
http://www.who.int/about/en/
http://www.polioeradication.org/tabid/461/iid/190/Default.aspx
http://www.who.int/about/en/
What Does
WHO Do?
http://www.who.int/about/en/
https://youtu.be/hSYaGCfPrxo
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/02/zika-outbreak-4000-suspected-cases-brazil-160203152642446.html
http://www.who.int/emergencies/zika-virus/situation-report/24-march-2016/en/
Funding
Assessed Contributions
Voluntary Contributions
WHO Reform
http://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/health-who-future/#graphic-who-microsite
Occupational
Therapy & WHO
Foster partnerships
Disability Awareness
Education Initiatives
Healthy Workplaces
http://www.wfot.org/groups/worldhealthorganisationwho.aspx
Health is...
Complete physical, mental,
and social well-being...
Not just absence of disease
or infirmity -WHO Constitution
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True Or False
1.The majority of WHOs funding comes from Assessed
Contributions not Volunteer Contributions.
2.The Global Outbreak Alert and Response is a WHO Network
that responds to an outbreak within 24 hours.
3.As stated in the OTPF, the WHO defines health as a state
of complete physical, mental, and social well-being
without any signs of disease.
4.A noncommunicable disease is a chronic condition such as
cancer where an example of a communicable disease
or an infectious disease is malaria.
5.World Health Day was formed on the day the World Health
Organization was established: April 7th, 1948.
References
Reuters Investigates. (2016). The WHOs critical challenge: Healing itself. Retrieved from http://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/ health-who-future/
#graphic-who-microsite
World Health Organization. (2016). Coordinated rapid outbreak response. Retrieved from http://www.who.int/csr/alertresponse/rapidresponse/en/
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