Calibration of Dose Meters Used in Radiotherapy: A Manual Sponsored by the International Atomic Energy Agency and World Health Organization

1980 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 267-267
Author(s):  
Robert Stanton
Keyword(s):  
World Health Organization ◽  
International Atomic Energy Agency ◽  
Atomic Energy ◽  
World Health ◽  
Energy Agency ◽  
Health Organization

scholarly journals Developing a Nuclear Global Health Workforce Amid the Increasing Threat of a Nuclear Crisis

2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 129-144 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frederick M. Burkle ◽  
Cham E. Dallas
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Infectious Disease ◽  
Global Health ◽  
International Atomic Energy Agency ◽  
Health Workforce ◽  
Atomic Energy ◽  
World Health ◽  
Energy Agency ◽  
Response Component ◽  
Nuclear Crisis

AbstractThis study argues that any nuclear weapon exchange or major nuclear plant meltdown, in the categories of human systems failure and conflict-based crises, will immediately provoke an unprecedented public health emergency of international concern. Notwithstanding nuclear triage and management plans and technical monitoring standards within the International Atomic Energy Agency and the World Health Organization (WHO), the capacity to rapidly deploy a robust professional workforce with the internal coordination and collaboration capabilities required for large-scale nuclear crises is profoundly lacking. A similar dilemma, evident in the early stages of the Ebola epidemic, was eventually managed by using worldwide infectious disease experts from the Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network and multiple multidisciplinary WHO-supported foreign medical teams. This success has led the WHO to propose the development of a Global Health Workforce. A strategic format is proposed for nuclear preparedness and response that builds and expands on the current model for infectious disease outbreak currently under consideration. This study proposes the inclusion of a nuclear global health workforce under the technical expertise of the International Atomic Energy Agency and WHO’s Radiation Emergency Medical Preparedness and Assistance Network leadership and supported by the International Health Regulations Treaty. Rationales are set forth for the development, structure, and function of a nuclear workforce based on health outcomes research that define the unique health, health systems, and public health challenges of a nuclear crisis. Recent research supports that life-saving opportunities are possible, but only if a rapidly deployed and robust multidisciplinary response component exists. (Disaster Med Public Health Preparedness. 2016;10:129–144)

World Health Organization

1957 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 539-540
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Services ◽  
World Health Organization ◽  
National Health ◽  
Annual Report ◽  
Atomic Energy ◽  
World Health ◽  
Director General ◽  
The World ◽  
Health Organization

The annual report of the Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) for the year 1956 was a comprehensive account of the year's accomplishments, in which particular emphasis was laid on the eradication of certain communicable diseases, especially malaria, on WHO's role in the development of national health services and on the effect of the research stimulated, promoted or coordinated by WHO on the national health administrations. The report also referred to the responsibility of WHO in a new field of public health—the peaceful uses of atomic energy.

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