World Health Organization

together in 1945 to create the United Nations, an organization which would encourage cooperation, coordination and provide support to all members of the international system. Shortly after, the UN created of the World Health Organization (WHO), with the aspiration that it would be the leading authority in global health issues for the international system. Since then, the WHO has grown and matured over the years, making important bounds in educating and directing states on important health decisions. Its membership now includes almost every state in the international system and its breadth of knowledge on global health issues has become…

World Health Organization, WHO was established on 1948 and it has focused on human health in the United Nations Organization. WHO directs and coordinates authorities for health issues. It is responsible for the management of health issues worldwide. WHO direct health-related research topics and sets norms and standards. WHO highlights evidence-based policy and it provides technical support to countries as well as monitors and assesses health trends. (Wikipedia 2014.) Targets of the WHO The…

Introduction. Health care organizations are capitalizing on the root cause analysis (RCA) route to determine the focal cause of adverse events within their facilities. First developed as a tool used in the engineering sector, RCAs have been extended to health care in many ways and have proved to be highly effective in improving facility performance and safety. This paper provides a more in-depth look into RCAs while also showing one particular case study. RCA defined. The World Health…

The disease AIDS has caused the world to come together and create many organizations on a global scale such as The International AIDS Society (IAS), United Nations AIDS organization(UNAIDS), and the Elton John AIDS…

Infants and their families Australian National Breastfeeding Strategy 2010–2015 (Australian Health Ministers’ Conference 2009) Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative (World Health Organization & Unicef 2009) Global Strategy on Infant and Young Child Feeding (World Health Organization & Unicef 2002) Infant Feeding Guidelines (National Health and Medical Research Council 2012a) The Australian National Breastfeeding Strategy 2010–2015 works together with both government and non-government…

Voltaire claimed that they were the “ingredients to a wretched world.” Now in the 21st century, Emmanuel Urey, a student, in response to the Ebola outbreak has added to this metaphor by stating that “[Liberia] just finished fighting a war, and now we have another one.” In other words, he is agreeing that disease and war are one in the same. While war and disease have hidden similarities on an infected society such as the deconstruction of social order it also builds and puts legal and medical…

cultures around the world, drinking alcohol has become a normalized activity, with many seeing getting intoxicated as a rite of passage into our adolescent years or as a celebration of reaching the legal drinking age. On the other hand, many individuals still view marijuana in a negative light, so what exactly makes the two different? Both are substances associated with decreasing a person’s inhibitions and is a foreign substance to…

Global Health in Relation to Early Childhood Development OVERALL TOPIC The function of global health is to promote and improve health worldwide through research and intervention. Authors Frances E. Aboud and Aisha K. Yousafzai, in their review “Global Health and Development in Early Childhood,” discuss these goals with a focus on infants born in low- and middle-income countries. Their article reviews evidence from multiple studies showing how health and nutritional risks and inadequate…

Hundreds of thousands of people die each year from suicide. The World Health Organization reports that the exact statistic claims there are more than 800,000 people who commit suicide annually ("Suicide"). This alarming number calls upon each individual to answer in a resounding voice that reduces the number of suicide deaths. Although, there is not one, concrete explanation on how to best prevent suicide, which is why all theories must be taken into consideration then applied where necessary.…

associated with small criminal networks, gangs, violations of labor laws and immigration codes (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2009). When many people think of human trafficking, they believe that an individual must be transported across international border to be a victim but that is not the case. It is estimated that there are 20.9 millions of victims globally and hundreds of thousands in the United States (National Human Trafficking Resource Center, n.d.). Victims are located…