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11th April 2016, 09:07 AM
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Re: Health Organization

WHO started when the Constitution came into power on 7 April 1948 – a date as now praise each year as World Health Day. WHO has now more than 7000 individuals working in 150 nation workplaces, in 6 territorial workplaces and at the base camp in Geneva.

Programmes by World Health Organization:
Accountability for Women’s and Children’s Health
African Programme for Onchocerciasis Control
Ageing and life-course
Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research
Archives of WHO
Association of Former WHO Staff (AFSM)
Avian influenza
Bulletin of the World Health Organization
Buruli ulcer
Cancer
Cardiovascular disease
Child growth standards
Children's environmental health
Clean Care is Safer Care
Climate change and human health
Clinical Trials - International Registry Platform (ICTRP)
Codex Alimentarius
Collaborating centres
Commission on Ending Childhood Obesity
Commission on Intellectual Property Rights, Innovation and Public Health (CIPIH)
Contracting and performance incentives
Dengue control
Diabetes Programme
Diagnostic imaging
Director-General
Disability and rehabilitation
Disability Assessment Schedule II (WHODAS II)
Disease Control in Humanitarian Emergencies
Disease outbreak news
Dracunculiasis
Drug information
Drug resistance
e-Library of Evidence for Nutrition Actions (eLENA)
eHealth
Electromagnetic fields (EMF)
Emergencies preparedness, response
Emergency and essential surgical care
Environmental health in emergencies
ePORTUGUESe
Essential medicines for children
Essential medicines selection
Ethics and health
Evidence-informed policy-making
Executive Board
Global action plan for influenza vaccines
Global Alliance against Chronic Respiratory Diseases
Global Campaign for Violence Prevention
Global Database on Child Growth and Malnutrition
Global health atlas
Global Health Histories
Global Health Observatory (GHO) data
Global Health Workforce Alliance
Global Observatory for eHealth
Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network
Global School Health Initiative
Global Strategy on Diet, Physical Activity & Health
Global Task Force on Cholera Control
Growth reference 5-19 years
Health Academy
Health Accounts
Health and development
Health and Environment Linkages Initiative - HELI
Health and Human Rights
Health and sustainable development
Health Cluster
Health financing for universal coverage
Health Impact Assessment (HIA)
Health promotion
Health statistics and information systems
Health system responsiveness
Health systems
Health technology assessment
Health workforce
Healthy Environments for Children Alliance
Healthy Settings
Hepatitis
HINARI Access to Research in Health Programme
HIV/AIDS
Household water treatment and safe storage
Human African trypanosomiasis
Human Genetics programme
Humanitarian health action
Immunization standards
Immunization, Vaccines and Biologicals
In vitro diagnostics and laboratory technology
Indoor air pollution
Influenza
Initiative for Vaccine Research (IVR)
Injection safety
Inter-Organization Programme for the Sound Management of Chemicals
Intergovernmental Forum on Chemical Safety
International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC)
International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF)
International Health Regulations
International Nonproprietary Names
International Programme on Chemical Safety
International travel and health
Ionizing radiation
Knowledge management and health
Knowledge transfer and training for outbreaks
Leishmaniasis
Leprosy elimination
Library and Information Networks for Knowledge
Lymphatic filariasis
M/XDR-TB meeting 2009
Macroeconomics and Health (CMH)
Malaria
Malaria: Roll Back Malaria Partnership
Management for health services delivery
Maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health
Media centre
Medical devices
Medicines and health products
Mental health
Millennium Development Goals (MDG)
National health policies, strategies and plans
NCD Surveillance
NCDnet - Global Noncommunicable Disease Network
Neglected tropical diseases
New and Under-utilized Vaccines Implementation (NUVI)
Noncommunicable diseases and mental health
Noncommunicable diseases and their risk factors
Nutrition
Occupational health
Onchocerciasis (River blindness)
Oral health
Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health
Patient safety
Polio Eradication Initiative
Prequalification of Medicines Programme
Prevention of Blindness and Visual Impairment
Prevention of deafness and hearing impairment
Promoting health through the life-course
Public Health and Environment
Public Health, Innovation, Intellectual Property and Trade
Publications (online book shop)
Quantifying environmental health impacts
Rabies
Reproductive Health Essential Medicines (RHEM) Resource Portal
Reproductive Health Library
Risk communication
Schistosomiasis
School and youth health
Sexual and reproductive health
Social determinants of health
Soil-transmitted helminths
Strategic Initiative for Developing Capacity in Ethical Review
Strategic Planning and Innovation (SPI)
Substance abuse
Tobacco Free Initiative (TFI)
Trade, foreign policy, diplomacy and health
Transplantation
Tropical Diseases, Special Programme for Research and Training (TDR)
Tuberculosis (TB)
Tuberculosis - Stop TB Partnership
Ultraviolet radiation and the INTERSUN Programme
United Nations Road Safety Collaboration
Vaccine Safety
Violence and Injury Prevention and Disability (VIP)
Violence Prevention Alliance
Vitamin and Mineral Nutrition Information System (VMNIS)
Water Sanitation and Health (WSH)
WHO-UNAIDS HIV Vaccine Initiative
WHO’s work with countries
World Conference on Social Determinants of Health
World health report
World Health Survey
World Summit on Sustainable Development
WSPortal: Health through Water
Zoonoses and veterinary public health


Statistics

Total population (2013) 1,252,140,000

Gross national income per capita (PPP international $, 2013) 5

Life expectancy at birth m/f (years, 2013) 65/68

Probability of dying under five (per 1 000 live births, 0) not available

Probability of dying between 15 and 60 years
m/f (per 1 000 population, 2013) 239/158

Total expenditure on health per capita (Intl $, 2013) 215

Total expenditure on health as % of GDP (2013) 4.0

Contact Details:

WHO Country Office
Rooms 533-537, 'A' Wing
Nirman Bhawan
Maulana Azad Road
New Delhi
110011


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