The role of the World Health Organization-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

The role of the World Health Organization

Published:2022-11-24 Issue:2 Volume:16 Page:95-100
ISSN:1755-7380
Container-title:InnovAiT: Education and inspiration for general practice
language:en
Short-container-title:InnovAiT: Education and inspiration for general practice

Author:

Hajizadeh Anisa¹^ORCID,Heath Laura²³^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Public Health Researcher, Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford

2. GP & Wellcome Doctoral Fellow, Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford

3. Email:

Abstract

The need for concerted global health collaboration predated the foundation of the World Health Organization (WHO). With the emergence of international trading and travel in the 1800s, deadly cholera epidemics necessitated a mechanism of international cooperation for disease prevention and control. Conferences such as the International Sanitary Convention in Paris in 1851 were examples of initial collaborative efforts to manage disease that crossed international borders. At the end of World War II (WW2) in 1945, there was a resolve to establish an organisation dedicated to global health. In 1948, at the International Health Conference in New York, 51 members of the United Nations and 10 other nations finalised the constitution for a WHO. This constitution still guides the WHO today.

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Subject

General Earth and Planetary Sciences,General Environmental Science

Link

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/17557380221139313

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