World Health Organization

As fast as our life is moving, so rapidly person have lack in caring about their health and hygiene as well as surroundings health that causes affection with diseases and stress. At this pace, the health of the human being is going away. 

In the race to move forward, the person is putting his important thing on the stake that is his health. A variety of diseases are spreading, many of them have not been yet detected even by WHO (World Health Organization). Rising diseases have become a serious topic for the world.

The World Health Organization is a specialized agency of the United Nations that is concerned with international public health. It was established on 7 April 1948 headquartered at Geneva in Switzerland. The WHO is a member of the United Nations Development Group. Its predecessor, the Health Organization, was an agency of the League of Nations. 

The constitution of the World Health Organization had been signed by 61 countries on 7 April 1948, with the first meeting of the World Health Assembly finishing on 24 July 1948. The World Health Organization is currently composed of 193 members, of which 191 are independent countries and members of the United Nations. The other two members are the Cook Islands and Niue, which are territories of New Zealand. It incorporated the Office International d'Hygiène Publique and the League of Nations Health Organization. Since its creation, it has played a leading role in the eradication of smallpox. Its current priorities include communicable diseases, in particular HIV/AIDS, Ebola, malaria and tuberculosis; the mitigation of the effects of non-communicable diseases; sexual and reproductive health, development, and ageing; nutrition, food security and healthy eating; occupational health; substance abuse; and driving the development of reporting, publications, and networking.

The WHO is responsible for the World Health Report, the worldwide World Health Survey, and World Health Day. India is a Member State of the WHO South East Asia Region. The WHO Country Office for India is headquartered in Delhi.