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The World Health Organization (WHO) is a specialized UN agency established on April 7, 1948, with headquarters in Geneva and 194 member states. Its aims include promoting health, ensuring universal health coverage, and protecting against health emergencies through initiatives like the Triple Billion Targets. WHO's activities focus on disease prevention, setting health standards, addressing nutrition and public health issues, and supporting countries like Vietnam in strengthening their health systems.

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The World Health Organization (WHO) is a specialized UN agency established on April 7, 1948, with headquarters in Geneva and 194 member states. Its aims include promoting health, ensuring universal health coverage, and protecting against health emergencies through initiatives like the Triple Billion Targets. WHO's activities focus on disease prevention, setting health standards, addressing nutrition and public health issues, and supporting countries like Vietnam in strengthening their health systems.

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WHO (World Health Organisation)

1, Intro:

- a specialized United Nations agency


- established on 7 April 1948
- its headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland
- with stations and offices in over 150 countries
- currently has 194 member states (since January 2021)
- Viet Nam has become a member since 17 May 1950

2, History:

- a global organisation overseeing global health  plan to creation of WHO (1945)


- (1946) WHO constitution is drafted and approved at the International Health Conference in
New York City.
- (1947) First ever global disease-tracking service
- (1950-now) discovery of various kinds of antibiotics and vaccines; many initiatives, funds,
commitments, and goals to protect global health (such as: controlling Ebola, Covid-19
pandemics, thorough treatment many diseases.

3, Aims:

+ leads and champions global efforts to achieve better health for all

+ give an equal chance at safe and healthy life for everyone

+ targets on promoting health, keeping the world safe and serving the vulnerable

 Set the Triple Billion Targets:


- 1 billion more people benefit from UHC( Universal Heatlh Coverage)
- -> ensure access to health as a human right like: get medicines and health products with
needs; help a sustainable financing.
- 1 billion more people are better protected from health emergencies.
- -> support countries to prepare for, detect, respond to and recover from health
emergencies
- 1 billion more people ẹnoy better heath and well-being
- -> address the root causes of health problems, promote wellness and address physical,
psychological, and environmental health risks; control social and environmental factors for a
healthy living

4, Activities:

a global organisation that creat to protect global health

some main activities:

- Disease prevention and control by monitoring, warning, responding pandemics and


infections diseases (covid-19, malaria, HIV/AIDS)
- Set international standards for health, food safety, medicines, vaccines,...
- Address nutrition and public health problems by monitoring reproductive health, nutrition,
food security, environmental health
- Research and data by collecting, analyzing and publishing global health reports with
solutions of some ways to prevent and protect.
5, Viet Nam:

One of the most United Nations agencies to support the Vietnamese health sector directly since the
end of the war and reunfication of the country.

 Set three main strategic priorities:


- Strengthening key health system fuctions to deliver the system objectives, towards universial
health coverage.
- Building sustainable national capacities and partnership to ensure public health securtiy and
safety
- Managing effectively communicable and noncommunicable diseases of public health
importance.

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