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WHAT IS WHO? WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION!
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The World Health Organization (WHO) is a specialized agency of the United
Nations, acting as a coordinating authority on international public health,
headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland. WHO was established by the UN on April 7,
1948. The current Director General is Lee Jong-wook. Historically, WHO inherited
much of the mandate and resources of its predecessor, the Health Organization
(HO), which had been an agency of the League of Nations.
Mission
WHO's constitution states that its mission "is the attainment by all peoples of
the highest possible level of health". Its major task is to combat disease,
especially key infectious diseases, and to promote the general health of the
peoples of the world. As well as coordinating international efforts to monitor
outbreaks of infectious disease such as SARS, malaria, and AIDS, it also has
programmes to combat such diseases, by developing and distributing vaccines.
After years of fighting smallpox, WHO declared in 1979 that the disease had been
eradicated - the first disease in history to be completely eliminated by
deliberate human design. WHO is nearing success in developing vaccines against
malaria and schistosomiasis and aims to eradicate polio within the next few
years.
WHO also compiles the widely followed International Classification of Diseases (ICD).
The tenth revision of the ICD was released in 1992 and a searchable version is
available online on the WHO website, although it is not comprehensive. Later
revisions are indexed and available in hardcopy versions. The WHO does not
permit simultaneous classification in two separate areas.
The constitution of WHO defines health as a state of complete physical, mental
and social well-being, and not as consisting only of the absence of disease or
infirmity. In addition to its work in eradicating disease, WHO also carries out
campaigns — for example, to boost consumption of vegetables worldwide, or to
discourage tobacco consumption – and conducts research: for instance, into
whether or not the electromagnetic field surrounding cell phones has a negative
influence on health. Some of this work can be controversial, such as the April
2003 WHO report which recommended that sugar be no more than 10% of a healthy
diet, which led to lobbying by the sugar industry against this recommendation.
In addition to WHO's stated mission, international treaties assign the
Organization a variety of responsibilities. For instance, the Single Convention
on Narcotic Drugs and the Convention on Psychotropic Substances call on WHO to
issue binding scientific and medical assessments of psychoactive drugs and
recommend how they should be regulated. In this way, WHO acts as a check on the
power of the drug policymaking Commission on Narcotic Drugs.
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