1. International Classification of Disease ( ICD 2007 )/ WHO classification:

The ICD is a core classification of the WHO Family of International Classifications ( WHO-FIC ).

The World Health Organization ( WHO ) produce a six-stage classification that describes the process by which a novel influenza virus moves from the first few infections in humans through to a pandemic.

This classification is accepted by the WHO.

The latest lymphoma classification, the 2008 WHO classification, largely abandoned the " Hodgkin " vs. " Non-Hodgkin " grouping.

The latest classification by the WHO ( 2008 ) lists 70 different forms of lymphoma divided in four broad groups.

REAL has been superseded by the WHO classification.

The WHO Classification, published in 2001 and updated in 2008, is the latest classification of lymphoma and is based upon the foundations laid within the " Revised European-American Lymphoma classification " ( REAL ).

1. International Classification of Disease ( ICD 2007 )/ WHO classification:

* Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical Classification System, a WHO drug classification system

" This classification was first created in 1980 and then called the International Classification of Impairments, Disabilities, and Handicaps, or ICIDH by WHO to provide a unifying framework for classifying the health components of functioning and disability.

The ICF classification complements WHO ’ s International Classification of Diseases-10th Revision ( ICD ), which contains information on diagnosis and health condition, but not on functional status.

In 1979, the World Health Organization ( WHO ) classified seven subtypes, upgraded in 2000 to a classification system with nine low-grade variants ( grade I tumors ) and three variants each of grade II and grade III meningiomas.

Classification of meningiomas are based upon the WHO classification system.

According to the WHO classification of the tumors of the central nervous system, the standard name for this brain tumor is " glioblastoma "; it presents two variants: giant cell glioblastoma and gliosarcoma.

Of numerous grading systems in use for the classification of tumor of the central nervous system, the World Health Organization ( WHO ) grading system is commonly used for astrocytoma.

It features in the World Health Organisation ( WHO ) classification of lymphomas.

To make this diagnosis under its present system of classification, the WHO the presence of " hallmark " cells and immunopositivity for CD30.

The USAN Council works in conjunction with the World Health Organization ( WHO ) International Nonproprietary Name ( INN ) Expert Committee and national nomenclature groups to standardize drug nomenclature and establish rules governing the classification of new substances.

However, since 1988 the WHO has classified diesel emissions as " probably carcinogenic to humans " and this classification ( in part ) has led to the new tighter standards on diesel emission ( such as the Tier 4 emission standards of the ARL ).

The WHO announcement on the change in diesel classification does not propose any changes to the WHO Air Quality Guidelines, which were used for the air quality thresholds in the 2011 Additional Review of Human Health Assessment for the ARL ( and noted to be more stringent than the guidelines used in earlier studies ).

* Labels must conform with WHO / FAO guidelines on safe preparation, storage and handling of powdered infant formula ( WHA resolution 61. 20 ).

The World Health Organization ( WHO ) recommends immunization of high risk groups, such as children and people with HIV, in countries where this disease is endemic.

The phases are defined by the spread of the disease ; virulence and mortality are not mentioned in the current WHO definition, although these factors have previously been included.

It has been classified by the WHO as a water-related disease.

The World Health Organization ( WHO ) coordinated the global effort to eradicate this disease.

After over two decades of fighting smallpox, the WHO declared in 1980 that the disease had been eradicated – the first disease in history to be eliminated by human effort.

Worldwide there are about 600 million people living in endemic areas and the official estimations of the WHO amount to 200, 000 cases of disease and 30, 000 deaths a year ; the number of officially reported cases is far lower.

WHO doctor Carlo Urbani reports the unusual, highly contagious disease to WHO.

For example, Shigella is a longstanding World Health Organization ( WHO ) target for vaccine development, and sharp declines in age-specific diarrhea / dysentery attack rates for this pathogen indicate that natural immunity does develop following exposure ; thus, vaccination to prevent this disease should be feasible.

A 2006 WHO report from an international meeting on plague cited a Chinese government disease expert as saying that most cases of the plague in China's northwest occur when hunters are contaminated while skinning infected animals.

The World Health Organization ( WHO ) defined health in its broader sense in 1946 as " a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.

Although a significant degree of uncertainty exists with reference to the diagnosis, WHO report states, " Based on the latest laboratory results, a significant proportion of the samples tested positive for enterovirus 71 ( EV-71 ), which causes hand foot and mouth disease ( HFMD ).

Contrary to conventional wisdom, the WHO advises that only corpses carrying an infectious disease strictly require burial.

WHO doctor Carlo Urbani, an infectious diseases specialist based in Hanoi who attended Mr Chen, noticed the outbreak among hospital workers there and first recognized SARS as a new disease.

On March 12 WHO issues a global alert about a new infectious disease of unknown origin in both Vietnam and Hong Kong.

WHO raised the concern that substandard care of the infected patients may contribute to the spread of the disease.

WHO officials said that the information provided by the PRC about the disease has been " very detailed ".

Nevertheless, WHO officials remained cautiously optimistic that the disease could still be contained.

According to a 2007 World Health Organization ( WHO ) report, 1. 1 billion people lack access to an improved drinking water supply, 88 percent of the 4 billion annual cases of diarrheal disease are attributed to unsafe water and inadequate sanitation and hygiene, and 1. 8 million people die from diarrheal diseases each year.

The World Health Organization defines chronic suppurative otitis media ( CSOM ) as " a stage of ear disease in which there is chronic infection of the middle ear cleft, a non-intact tympanic membrane ( i. e. perforated eardrum ) and discharge ( otorrhoea ), for at least the preceding two weeks " ( WHO 1998 ).

An example of this is the worldwide eradication of smallpox in 1980 — declared by the WHO as the first disease in human history to be completely eliminated by deliberate health care interventions.

* WHO site on disease outbreak news

He chaired the WHO Commission on Macroeconomics and Health ( 2000-1 ), which played a pivotal role in scaling up the financing of health care and disease control in the low-income countries to support MDGs 4, 5, and 6.

In April 2011, Sri Lanka was certified by the WHO as having eradicated this disease.