Why has world health organization been established ?
The World Health Organization (WHO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) that acts as a coordinating authority on international public health. Established on 7 April 1948, and headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, the agency inherited the mandate and resources of its predecessor, the Health Organization, which had been an agency of the League of Nations. Sources: http://en.wikipedia.
“Well, it came about quite accidentally”, affirms Szeming Sze, one of the founding fathers of the World Health Organization (WHO). “The San Francisco Conference was being held so that countries could pledge themselves to establish the United Nations, and nobody had any thought at the start of the Conference of forming a health organization”. Nobody ever expected the establishment of a health organisation during the San Francisco Conference in 1945. However, the WHO could be seen as nothing more than the culmination of efforts at international health cooperation that had started almost a century before. Surely it was not the first attempt of dealing with health at the international level. The newly created Organization was to some extent an amalgamation of a number of existing organisations that together represented a long history of international cooperation, dating from as early as 14th century. They were the Office International d’Hygiene Publique (OIHP), which had been set up by the
