The World Health Organization : achievements and failures
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The World Health Organization : achievements and failures
（Global governance / series editor, John J. Kirton）
Routledge, 2018
- : hbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [178]-191) and index
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Description
The World Health Organization (WHO) is undergoing a crisis of credibility and challenge. Having been subjected to a severe financial crisis and criticisms of its management of pandemics such as the H1N1 flu case and the outbreak of Ebola, with a new Director-General at its helm, it is an ideal time to review the WHO's past and current achievements including on-going operations and reported failures. Whilst time is given to recurrent attacks on WHO performance, it is balanced by also highlighting the WHO's leadership, its member states, and its influence on other actors, NGOs and business. As such, this study reviews the WHO's actions in the most visible programmes such as SARS, H1N1, Ebola and also smallpox, malaria, onchocerciasis, polio and AIDS. The author also discusses the desirable balance between operational and normative functions and proposals for reform of the Organization.
Table of Contents
Foreword. Preface. Part I Who's Mandate, Governance and Programmes. Chapter 1 Mandate, Structure and Functions. Chapter 2 Strategy and Programmes. Part II Global Outbreaks and Pandemics. Chapter 3 The Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome and The Avian Influenza. Chapter 4 The H1n1 Flu Pandemic Crisis and The Middle East Respiratory Syndrome. Chapter 5 The Fight Against Ebola. Chapter 6 Fighting Zika. Part III Communicable Diseases: Control or Eradication? Chapter 7 Fighting Malaria. Chapter 8 The Eradication of Smallpox. Chapter 9 The Onchocerciasis Control Programmes. Chapter 10 The Eradication of Polio. Chapter 11 The Global Fight Against Aids. Chapter 12 Fighting Tuberculosis. Part IV Fighting Non-Communicable Diseases. Chapter 13 Access to Essential Medicines. Chapter 14 Nutrition issues. Chapter 15 Fighting tobacco and alcohol. Conclusion. Bibliography. Index
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