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The World Health Organization and Dental Health [PDF]

open access: possibleThe Journal of the American Dental Association, 1968
“The attainment by all peoples of the highest possible level of health,” is the objective of the 20-year-old special agency of the United Nations, which has its own membership and financial resources.
V. Rudko, D.E. Barmes
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Democratizing the World Health Organization

Public Health, 2014
A progressive erosion of the democratic space appears as one of the emerging challenges in global health today. Such delimitation of the political interplay has a particularly evident impact on the unique public interest function of the World Health Organization (WHO). This paper aims to identify some obstacles for a truly democratic functioning of the
R. van de Pas, L.G. van Schaik
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The World Health Organization And “Health For All”

Health Affairs, 1985
To illustrate the breadth of the work carried out by the World Health Organization (WHO) the author describes 5 diverse WHO programs: The Special Program for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases the Diarrheal Diseases Control Program the Expanded Program on Immunization the Drug Action Program and the Onchocerciasis Control Program in the Volta ...
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Investing in the World Health Organization

Science, 1999
N o international organization has been more successful in promoting global health and well-being in the past half century than the World Health Organization (WHO). It has been at the forefront of advances that have allowed people to live longer and healthier lives that are far less threatened by infectious diseases. It has also improved access to good
David E. Bloom   +3 more
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Collaborating with The WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION

Journal of Gerontological Nursing, 1984
The policy theme of Health for all by the Year 2000 has provided impetus for many special projects throughout the world.
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Whither the World Health Organization?

Medical Journal of Australia, 2003
The outgoing Director-General of the World Health Organization, Gro Harlem Brundtland, has successfully returned health issues to the international arena. The new Director-General will have to cope with reduced control over funding, debate over WHO's mandate, and the relationships between WHO and other organisations. Despite the broad role described in
Michael A Reid, E Jim Pearse
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The World Health Organization and Peacekeeping

Journal of International Peacekeeping, 1998
Although the World Health Organization has no peacekeeping mandate, it has adopted resolutions condemning instruments of war and introduced a request to the International Court of Justice on the use of nuclear weapons, which was rejected as not within the scope of the organization's activities.
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