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The World Health Organization (WHO) is a leading organisation involved in the global coordination for mitigating the COVID-19 pandemic within the broader United Nations response to the pandemic . On 5 January 2020, the WHO notified the world about a "pneumonia of unknown cause" in China and subsequently began investigating the disease.
The World Health Organization ( WHO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations responsible for international public health. [ 2] It is headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, and has six regional offices [ 3] and 150 field offices worldwide. [ 4] The WHO was established on April 7, 1948, and formally began its work on September 1, 1948. [ 5]
World Health Report. The World Health Report ( WHR) is a series of annual reports produced by the World Health Organization (WHO). First published in 1995, the World Health Report is WHO's leading publication. [1] The reports were published every year from 1995 to 2008, and again in 2010 and 2013. The reports are available in multiple languages ...
The 5-year observed survival rate refers to the percentage of patients who live at least five years after being diagnosed with cancer. Many of these patients live much longer than five years after diagnosis.
Health is a basic human right and human need, and all human rights are interconnected. Thus, health must be discussed along with all other basic human rights. [ 1] Health equity is defined by the CDC as "the state in which everyone has a fair and just opportunity to attain their highest level of health". [ 5]
The Global Forum for Health Research is an international foundation headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, established in 1997 to increase the amount of research into global health issues. It coined the phrase 10/90 gap to identify the observation that only 10% of the world's health research spending is targeted at 90% of present health problems ...
[22] [23] According to the World Health Organization, approximately 10 million new TB infections occur every year, and 1.5 million people die from it each year – making it the world's top infectious killer (before COVID-19 pandemic). [22] However, there is a lack of sources which describe major TB epidemics with definite time spans and death ...
On 10 November, Germany advised against the Moderna vaccine for people under 30, due to a possible association with myocarditis. [235] On 24 November, the Omicron variant was detected in South Africa; a few days later the World Health Organization declared it a VoC (variant of concern). [236] The new variant is more infectious than the Delta ...