International drug monitoring: The role of national centres. World Health Organization report series. World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland. (available from American Public Health Association, 1015 18th st., N.W., Washington, DC 20036), 1972 47 pp. 16 × 24CM. Price $1.00

Epidemics of smallpox, cholera, plague and other infectious diseases in the world in the past were accompanied by the deaths of millions of people and often threatened humanity with destruction as a biological species. Therefore, society was forced to join forces to create an organization that would provide health protection on a global scale. On April 7, 1948, 26 UN member states created the World Health Organization, the main goal of which was to help provide the protection of health of the population of all countries of the world. Purpose of the study - analysis of the historical data of the process of creating the World Health Organization, achievements for all the years of its existence, financing in last years and formation of the opinions of authors on the role of this organization in solving health problems of all humanity. Results. The article presents data on stages of the formation of the World Health Organization. Information about positive results for more than 70 years in solving reproductive health problems, maternal and child mortality, eradicating many infectious diseases in different parts of the world and other problems is detailed. Joint resolutions of the World Health Organization with the United Nations were adopted about general and complete disarmament, protection of humanity from atomic radiation, ban on the use of chemical and bacteriological weapons, defining of the role of doctors and other health workers in the preservation and strengthening of the world. Information on the World Health Organization funding is provided. The prospects for the development of the organization are described. Conclusions. The World Health Organization actively continues its work – maintains contact with international experts, governments and partners for quick collection of scientific data on a new virus, tracks its distribution and assesses its virulence, provides to countries and population recommendations on health protection measures and preventing the spread of infection. The global climatic crisis and the coronavirus infection pandemic showed that the role of the World Health Organization should increase to prevent cataclysms in some countries and globally. It is the World Health Organization that has a huge positive international experience in fighting various public health problems and it remains the only effective organization that consolidates the efforts of most countries of the world to overcome the problems of all humanity.

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Promoting Public Health in the Twenty-First Century: The Role of the World Health Organization

Globalization and Health ◽

10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195172997.003.0016 ◽

2006 ◽

pp. 268-283 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Ruth Bonita ◽

Alec Irwin ◽

Robert Beaglehole

Keyword(s):

Public Health ◽

World Health Organization ◽

First Century ◽

World Health ◽

The World ◽

Twenty First Century ◽

Health Organization

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The role of the World Health Organization country programs in the development of virology in Spain, 1951-1975

História Ciências Saúde-Manguinhos ◽

10.1590/s0104-59702020000300010 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 27 (suppl 1) ◽

pp. 187-210

Author(s):

María Isabel Porras ◽

María José Báguena

Keyword(s):

Public Health ◽

World Health Organization ◽

Health Knowledge ◽

World Health ◽

Historical Archives ◽

The World ◽

Health Organization ◽

The Impact ◽

Selection Of

Abstract Within the framework of recent historiography about the role of the World Health Organization (WHO) in modernizing public health and the multifaceted concept of global health, this study addresses the impact of the WHO’s “country programs” in Spain from the time it was admitted to this organization in 1951 to 1975. This research adopts a transnational historical perspective and emphasizes attention to the circulation of health knowledge, practices, and people, and focuses on the Spain-0001 and Spain-0025programs, their role in the development of virology in Spain, and the transformation of public health. Sources include historical archives (WHO, the Spanish National Health School), various WHO publications, the contemporary medical press, and a selection of the Spanish general press.

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