A short presentation on the World Health Organisation.

2. What does health means?
Physical + Mental + Social being

3. ‘Health is a state of complete physical,
mental and social well-being and not
merely the absence of disease or
infirmity’.
WHO Constitution

4. Established- July, 1948
Headquarter- Geneva, Switzerland
Members- 194 Member States

5. Assembly Executive
Board
Secretariat

6. Functions
•Works as a co-ordinating authority
•Eradicate diseases
•Conducting research and develop
standards
•Medical and health information
bank

7. Failure or Controversies
•Should the government make money by
permitting us to smoke?
•In 2012, received cash from Coca-Cola, Nestle
and Unilever; and provide them to suggest
policy for fighting obesity causing diabetes and
heart disease

8. All's Well That Ends Well
•Successfully fought small pox, polio,
malaria etc
•Faces the emergence situations like Swine
Flue, Mad Cow, Bird Flue, Ebola etc
•Made real progress in the research fields
like AIDS and cancer