It has also been successful in helping to reduce cases by 99 % since the Global Polio Eradication Initiative was launched in 1988, which partnered WHO with Rotary International, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ( CDC ) and the United Nations Children ’ s Fund ( UNICEF ), as well as smaller organizations.

Other international policy frameworks produced by WHO include the International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes ( adopted in 1981 ), Framework Convention on Tobacco Control ( adopted in 2003 ) and the Global Code of Practice on the International Recruitment of Health Personnel ( adopted in 2010 ).

In 2003, the WHO and UNICEF published their Global Strategy for Infant and Young Child Feeding, which restated that " processed-food products for infants and young children should, when sold or otherwise distributed, meet applicable standards recommended by the Codex Alimentarius Commission ", and also warned that " lack of breastfeeding — and especially lack of exclusive breastfeeding during the first half-year of life — are important risk factors for infant and childhood morbidity and mortality ".

* WHO Global Alert and Response Disease Outbreak News: Shigellosis

Now a partner in the Global Polio Eradication Initiative ( GPEI ) with WHO, UNICEF and the U. S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Rotary is recognized by the United Nations as the key private partner in the eradication effort.

Global Alerts are also issued by agencies such as the World Health Organization ( WHO ), when there is a perceived threat of international pandemic, ( global epidemic ), such as the threat of a SARS, ( Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome ), pandemic during March 2003, due to its high contagion level which was rapidly spread by travelers sharing international flights.

* World Health Organisation: WHO Report on the Global Tobacco Epidemic, 2008

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.

WHO ’ s Global Strategy on Reproductive Health, adopted by the World Health Assembly in May 2004, noted: “ As a preventable cause of maternal mortality and morbidity, unsafe abortion must be dealt with as part of the MDG on improving maternal health and other international development goals and targets.

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 Task Force was integrated within IAPB, becoming the " Task Force of IAPB ", and a Memorandum of Understanding to implement the " Global Initiative to Eliminate Avoidable Blindness " was signed between IAPB and WHO.

The WHO Global Workforce Alliance estimates that there are 1 billion people alive today that will never see a health care professional.

The WHO Global Code of Practice on the International Recruitment of Health Personnel was developed in a context of making aware of international health worker recruitment.

WHO ’ s Global Strategy on Reproductive Health, adopted by the World Health Assembly in May 2004, noted: “ As a preventable cause of maternal mortality and morbidity, unsafe abortion must be dealt with as part of the MDG on improving maternal health and other international development goals and targets.

A Harvard-trained anthropologist, Popp was actually a collaborator of the Flying Doctors, a branch of the African Medical Research Foundation ( AMREF ), and a consultant for the WHO in Kenya, where he had organized a conference in the new Global AIDS Program that very year.

Regular statistical updates on the global HHR situation are collated in the WHO Global Atlas of the Health Workforce.

* WHO Snake Antivenoms Database

Member countries send their reports to the Uppsala Monitoring Centre where they are processed, evaluated and entered into the WHO International Database.

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.

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.

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.

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.

* 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 "

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

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.

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 ).

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

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.

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 2005, the singer was appointed as WHO Goodwill Ambassador for Maternal and Child Health in the European Region.

As stated by the WHO in its 2005 World Health Report " Make Every Mother and Child Count ", the major causes of maternal deaths are: severe bleeding / hemorrhage ( 25 %), infections ( 13 %), unsafe abortions ( 13 %), eclampsia ( 12 %), obstructed labour ( 8 %), other direct causes ( 8 %), and indirect causes ( 20 %).

In 2005, Kebede was appointed as WHO Goodwill Ambassador for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health.

In 2005, Kebede was appointed WHO Goodwill Ambassador for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health.

Malnutrition including chronic undernutrition and acute malnutrition is known to have caused stunted growth in various populations ( WHO, 2012: Public Health Nutrition 2012 ; 15: 142-8 .).