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In 1979 the American feminist writer Fran Hosken ( 1920 – 2006 ) presented research about it — The Hosken Report: Genital and Sexual Mutilation of Females — to the first Seminar on Harmful Traditional Practices Affecting the Health of Women and Children, sponsored by the WHO.

The European Union ( EU ), the Inter-American Development Bank ( IDB ), the UN Development Programme ( UNDP ), the World Health Organization ( WHO ), and the Organization of American States ( OAS ) have offices in Georgetown.

There are currently two widely established systems that classify mental disorders — ICD-10 Chapter V: Mental and behavioural disorders, since 1949 part of the International Classification of Diseases produced by the WHO, and the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders ( DSM-IV ) produced by the American Psychiatric Association ( APA ) since 1952.

Other publications of WHO include the Bulletin of the World Health Organization, the Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal ( overseen by EMRO ), the Human Resources for Health ( published in collaboration with BioMed Central ), and the Pan American Journal of Public Health ( overseen by PAHO / AMRO ).

Prior studies had also assumed a clear glycemic threshold between people at high and low risk of diabetic retinopathy .< ref name =" pmid9203460 "> However, it has been shown that the widely accepted WHO and American Diabetes Association diagnostic cutoff for diabetes of a fasting plasma glucose ≥ 7. 0 mmol / l ( 126 mg / dl ) does not accurately identify diabetic retinopathy among patients.

At times in the 1980s, in order to protest the Reagan administration's Cuba policy and its instigation of the anti-Castro Radio Martí program from the Voice of America, Radio Habana Cuba broadcast briefly on mediumwave frequencies at a greatly boosted power allowing the station to be heard on American AM radios and overwhelming local American AM stations broadcasting on that frequency, including clear channel station WHO in Des Moines, Iowa on 1040 kHz.

The Milbank Memorial Fund helped to make this extensive series of seminars possible and the WHO, through the Pan American Health Organization, also cooperated in these seminars.

* A total of 16 universities have conferred honorary degrees and 14 countries have honored him with awards and decorations, as well as WHO and the Pan American Health Organization.

No professional association has recognized PAS as a relevant medical syndrome or mental disorder, and it is not listed in the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders or the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems of the WHO.

According to the American Cancer Society, the 2000 WHO definition states:

) WHO moved from 1000 AM to the current 1040 AM on March 29, 1941, as a result of the North American Radio Broadcasting Agreement.

The WHO is revising their classifications in these sections as part the development of the ICD-11 ( scheduled for 2015 ), and an " International Advisory Group " has been established to guide this.

He currently chairs the Royal College of Physicians ' Working Party on Physicians and the Pharmaceutical Industry ; co-chairs a WHO Scientific Advisory Group on Clinical Trials Registration ; is a Council Member of the Global Forum for Health Research ; is a Board Member of the Health Metrics Network ; sits on the External Reference Group for WHO's Research Strategy ; and is an External Advisory Board Member for the WHO European Region.

During the period 1996 to 1998, through a series of consultations between the Programme Advisory Group ( PAG ) of WHO, the Partnership Committee, and the Task Force, the document, " Global Initiative for the Elimination of Avoidable Blindness ", was developed and adopted.

The WHO calls alcoholism " a term of long-standing use and variable meaning ", and use of the term was disfavored by a 1979 WHO Expert Committee.

In 1928, BCG was adopted by the Health Committee of the League of Nations ( predecessor to the WHO ).

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The term was adopted at the third conference of the Inter-African Committee on Traditional Practices Affecting the Health of Women and Children in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and in 1991 the WHO recommended its use to the United Nations.

* Joint FAO / WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives

* Evaluation of certain Food Additives and Contaminants ; Sixty-first report of the Joint FAO / WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives

* 1980 FAO / IAEA / WHO Joint Expert Committee on Food Irradiation recommends the clearance generally up to 10 kGy " overall average dose "

In accordance with a recommendation of the WHO Expert Committee on Health Statistics, this revision was limited to essential changes and amendments of errors and inconsistencies.

The most common method of staging was defined by the Fifth WHO Expert Committee on Filariasis:

The organization relies on contributions from renowned scientists and professionals to inform its work, such as the WHO Expert Committee on Biological Standardization, the WHO Expert Committee on Leprosy, and the WHO Study Group on Interprofessional Education & Collaborative Practice.

In addition, the UN observer organizations International Committee of the Red Cross and International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies have entered into " official relations " with WHO and are invited as observers.

In 1965, the World Health Organization ( WHO ) Expert Committee on Dependence-producing Drugs ' Fourteenth Report noted, " The Committee was pleased to note the resolution of the Economic and Social Council with respect to khat, confirming the view that the abuse of this substance is a regional problem and may best be controlled at that level ".

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At the FAO / WHO joint Expert Committee on Food Additives and in the EU, no numerical acceptable daily intake ( ADI ) has been set, as pectin is considered safe.

A preparation labelled 81 / 541 was distributed by the WHO Expert Committee on Biological Standardization without official status and given the assigned value of 50 mIU / ampoule based on an earlier collaborative study.

" However, with the support of Derek, head of the Policy Coordination Committee at the WHO, the proposal gained momentum.

In 1964 the WHO Expert Committee on Drug Dependence introduced " dependence " as " A cluster of physiological, behavioural and cognitive phenomena of variable intensity, in which the use of a psychoactive drug ( or drugs ) takes on a high priority.

The reasons for variable efficacy have been discussed at length in a WHO document on BCG.

DDT is classified as " moderately toxic " by the United States National Toxicology Program ( NTP ) and " moderately hazardous " by the World Health Organization ( WHO ), based on the rat oral of 113 mg / kg.

WHO Global Database on Child Growth and Malnutrition.

The WHO estimated that an additional 10 – 20 babies die per 1, 000 deliveries as a result of FGM ; the estimate was based on a 2006 study conducted on 28, 393 women attending delivery wards at 28 obstetric centers in Burkina Faso, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal and Sudan.

* 1997 FAO / IAEA / WHO Joint Study Group on High-Dose Irradiation recommends to lift any upper dose limit

Laos is a member of the following international organizations: Agency for Cultural and Technical Cooperation ( ACCT ), Association of Southeast Asian NationsASEAN, ASEAN Free Trade Area ( AFTA ), ASEAN Regional Forum, Asian Development Bank, Colombo Plan, Economic and Social Commission for Asia and Pacific ( ESCAP ), Food and Agriculture Organization ( FAO ), Group of 77G-77, International Bank for Reconstruction and Development ( World Bank ), International Civil Aviation Organization ( ICAO ), International Development Association ( IDA ), International Fund for Agricultural Development ( IFAD ), International Finance Corporation ( IFC ), International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, International Labour Organization ( ILO ), International Monetary Fund ( IMF ), Intelsat ( nonsignatory user ), Interpol, International Olympic Commission ( IOC ), International Telecommunication UnionITU, Mekong Group, Non-Aligned Movement ( NAM ), Permanent Court of Arbitration ( PCA ), United Nations, United Nations Convention on Trade and Development ( UNCTAD ), United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization ( UNESCO ), United Nations Industrial Development Organization ( UNIDO ), Universal Postal Union ( UPU ), World Federation of Trade Unions, World Health Organization ( WHO ), World Intellectual Property Organization ( WIPO ), World Meteorological Organization ( WMO ), World Tourism Organization, World Trade Organization ( observer ).

In a virtual press conference in May 2009 on the influenza pandemic Dr Keiji Fukuda, Assistant Director-General ad Interim for Health Security and Environment, WHO said " An easy way to think about pandemic ... is to say: a pandemic is a global outbreak.

In planning for a possible influenza pandemic the WHO published a document on pandemic preparedness guidance in 1999, revised in 2005 and in February 2009, defining phases and appropriate actions for each phase in an aide memoir entitled WHO pandemic phase descriptions and main actions by phase.

WHO is responsible for the World Health Report, a leading international publication on health, the worldwide World Health Survey, and World Health Day.

In 1986, WHO started it global programme on the growing problem of HIV / AIDS, followed two years later by additional attention on preventing discrimination against sufferers and UNAIDS was formed in 1996.

WHO works to improve nutrition, food safety and food security and to ensure this has a positive effect on public health and sustainable development.