Current Catalog

Current Catalog
Author: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1378
Release:
Genre: Medicine
ISBN:

First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.

Basic Documents

Basic Documents
Author: World Health Organization
Publisher: World Health Organization
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014-12-15
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9789241650489

This 48th edition, including amendments adopted up to 31 December 2014, brings together into one volume essential documents concerning the governance of the World Health Organization, including the Constitution, Rules of Procedure of both the World Health Assembly and the Executive Board, as well as Financial and Staff Regulations. It also includes Regulations for Expert Advisory Panels and Committees and for Study and Scientific Groups, the texts of agreements with the United Nations and other agencies, the Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the Specialized Agencies, the Statute of the International Agency for Research on Cancer, and the principles governing relations with nongovernmental organizations. It lists Members and Associate Members of the World Health Organization.

Closing the Gap in a Generation

Closing the Gap in a Generation
Author: WHO Commission on Social Determinants of Health
Publisher: World Health Organization
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2008
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9241563702

Social justice is a matter of life and death. It affects the way people live, their consequent chance of illness, and their risk of premature death. We watch in wonder as life expectancy and good health continue to increase in parts of the world and in alarm as they fail to improve in others.

The World Health Report 2003

The World Health Report 2003
Author: World Health Organization
Publisher: World Health Organization
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2003
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9789241562430

"We have a real opportunity now to make progress that will mean longer healthier lives for millions of people.

The World Health Organization

The World Health Organization
Author: Marcos Cueto
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 391
Release: 2019-04-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 1108483577

A history of the World Health Organization, covering major achievements in its seventy years while also highlighting the organization's internal tensions. This account by three leading historians of medicine examines how well the organization has pursued its aim of everyone, everywhere attaining the highest possible level of health.