World Health Organization

By: Jackie Centeno

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 Who they are?
The World Health Organization(WHO) works with the government to provide a better
and healthier life. They help fight communicable diseases and noncommunicable
diseases. WHO has staff working all over the world in about 150 countries and they
ensure people are vaccinated and have the proper medication. There are six areas in
which they mainly work.

- Health System
- Promoting health
- Non Communicable/ Communicable diseases
- Corporate services
- Preparedness, surveillance & response
 What they do outside the U.S?
WHO works with the government as well as funds and foundations, civil society organization
to help with fighting infectious diseases from spreading. They communicate through the six
main areas of work as mentioned previously. Each and every one of these areas have a
specific job that helps the staff with identifying and helping fight or properly take care of
these diseases.

- Health System: works with global health partners to have health plans & makes health services affordable
- Promoting health through the life course: takes into consideration the environmental risks, health as well as gender
equality and human rights
- Non Communicable/ Communicable diseases: identifying ways to prevent communicable diseases such as HIV,Aids,
etc & noncommunicable diseases such as cancer, stroke, diabetes, etc.
- Corporate services: provide the resources needed to accomplish this such as the staff and experts
- Preparedness, surveillance & response: provide guidance, strategies, & helps countries prepare for emergencies
Detecting outbreaks
The World Health Organization has what is called WHO Health Emergencies Programme which
works with countries to prevent and respond to hazards, disasters and disease outbreaks. The
organization works to ensure better health services to countries who have occurring
emergencies and prevent less health issues. It has five technical and operational departments
to help detect these outbreaks.

-Infectious hazards management: provide techniques for infectious hazards

-Country health preparedness & health international health regulations: ensure country capacities are
set for all hazards emergency risks
-Health emergency information and risk assessment : provide analysis, risk assessment & response for
major health threats & events
-Emergency operations: ensure emergency populations have access to health services
-Emergency core services: ensure operations are financed and staffed
How they help with clinical research?
The World Health Organization works with the International Agency for Research on
Cancer( IARC). They are an expertised institute in laboratory sciences, biostatistics, and
bioinformatics. The agency has a group of scientist that research to help prevent cancer
or find treatment. Along with that they have the Global Initiative for Cancer
Registry(GICR) which is a registration that the IARC created to help analyze cancer
programme and cancer prevention.
Current Outbreak
In Nigeria, there has been an outbreak of Lassa Fever in which it has spread up to 17
states and about 450 people have been infect in less than one month. Staff members are
being moved from nationals to the Government of nigeria's national Lassa Fever
Emergency Operations Centre where they will help with surveillance. This outbreak is
severe that even health workers are being affected which is why WHO is providing
strategies and protective equipment that will help staff when them come in contact with
those infected.
Current Event
The World Health Organization is working on collaborating with the International
Council of Nurses in which they will be working with Nursing Now, a three year global
campaign. Their purpose is to try and help improve the level of nursing worldwide. It will
mainly focus on providing a better investment in the nursing workforce, enlisting nurses,
and discovering research where nurses will have a greater impact. This campaign was
discovered through the Triple Impact report where improving health globally as well as
providing nurses would help gender equity.
Informing the public

The World Health Organization informs the public about diseases and prevention
through media such as twitter, news letters, videos and the press. They provide the
latest news and how to respond to outbreaks. You can get information from current and
even previous years as long as it is within the past ten years.
Interesting Facts
- There are more than 7000 people working in 150 country offices
- On April 7th of each year, they celebrate World Health Day
- Over 13 million people die each year from infectious and parasitic diseases
- 8/10 deaths of noncommunicable diseases occur in low and middle income
countries
- There were approximately 36.7 million people living with HIV at the end of
2016
- 7/10 pregnant women living with HIV received antiretroviral treatment
Citations
Who they are?
"Who We Are, What We Do." World Health Organization. N. p., 2018. Web. 27 Feb. 2018.
Detecting Possible Outbreaks:
"WHO's New Health Emergencies Programme." World Health Organization. N. p., 2018. Web. 27 Feb. 2018.
Current Outbreak:
"WHO Moves To Contain Nigeria’S Lassa Fever Outbreak." WHO | Regional Office for Africa. N. p., 2018. Web. 27 Feb. 2018.
Current Event:
"Nursing Now Campaign." World Health Organization. N. p., 2018. Web. 1 Mar. 2018.
Clinical Research:
"About The International Agency For Research On Cancer." World Health Organization. N. p., 2018. Web. 1 Mar. 2018.
What they do outside of the U.S?
"What We Do." World Health Organization. N. p., 2018. Web. 1 Mar. 2018.
Informing the public:
"WHO Media Centre." World Health Organization. N. p., 2018. Web. 1 Mar. 2018.