World Health Organization

disease.3 To protect the health of humans and both foreign and native animal species, various international organizations were founded and numerous laws and regulations were enacted. Some examples of international animal health organizations include but not limited to the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). OIE is an independent international organization created in 1924 with the mandate “to improve animal health worldwide.”3 It sets the standard

Leading World Health The World Health Organization (WHO) which is an agency of the United Nations, is one of the success stories of sound management principles. It is headquartered in Geneva, and it coordinates all its activities from this center (WHO, 2016). The organization is mandated to promote and find health solutions to global health challenges. Through funding, it supports research initiatives and health programs geared towards restoring global health. The expansiveness of the mandate

United States of America Faith Renteria LHHSMUN World Health Organization Multidrug-Resistant Diseases; Cloning I. Country Profile A. Government 1. Official Country Name: United States of America 2. Governmental System: Constitution-based Federal Republic 3. Head of State: Barack Obama 4. Official Language(s): No Official Language 5. Region: Allies/Blocs: EU Members, NATO Members, Western Bloc B. People 1. Population and

Overview of the FCTC The World Health Organisation (WHO) Framework Convention for Tobacco Control (FCTC) is a global public health treaty, developed in response to the globalisation of the “Tobacco epidemic”, that entered into force in the February of 2005 (World Health Organisation, 2015). As outlined in the convention itself, the aim of the FCTC is to “...protect present and future generations from the devastating... consequences of tobacco consumption and exposure” (WHO Framework Convention on

Social Dimension Based on World Health Organization statistics, global economic interdependence has led to an astonishing increase of the population and higher standards of living (Who.int, 2016). For instance, Lagos used to have a population of 41,000 in 1900 (Cahoon, n.d.). A century later, Lagos records an astonishing population number of 8 million (World Population Review, 2016). The traveling from one place to another resulted in denser population centers. For instance, China has 150 million

World Health Organization The World Health Organization is a global organization that works on health conditions throughout the world. The WHO works with countries all over the world to help fix health policies to improve health conditions and the quality of life. The World Health Organization is currently working on fixing and improving mental health policies throughout the world. The World Health Organization works on addressing health related issues throughout the world; an important issue they

During every year everyone trembles in fear as a new and stronger strand of flu like sickness comes along. These viruses are met with vaccines that are swiftly made by the World Health Organization. The problem with the way that vaccines are made is, the World Health Organization not only makes the vaccines but also deems the vaccines safe. Since they are responsible for making and deeming the vaccines safe, mistakes can lead to mass deaths. For this reason there should be checks and balances where

The definition of health according to the World Health Organization is: “a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity”. It is the goal of health psychologists to identify and understand what determines physical, mental, and social well-being. Rather than focusing on mental illness, it focuses on physical health. The aim of health psychology is to promote and maintain health, prevent and treat illness, identify and diagnose the correlation

Erasing the Stigma According to the World Health Organization, “One in four people in the world will be affected by mental or neurological disorders at some point in their lives.” This means that there are diseases that exist that can affect anyone in the world, but because an ignorant society dismisses it as less serious or something one can control, less and less people seek help. The brain, as complicated and important as it is, can in no way be perfect. Mental Health illnesses are not less serious

eventually the organism as a whole (Burton 2007). The correlation between the biological time clock for ageing and the calendar/chronological age differs among individuals. However, the World Health Organization accepts 65 years as the chronological age that defines an ‘elderly’ person (World Health Organization 2014). According to the United Nations’ report on population ageing, one of the most distinguishing demographic occurrences of the twentieth century is the fact that the world’s elderly population