The world expects effective global health interventions: Can global health deliver?
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World Health Organization and global health policy.
T he World Health Organization (WHO) was founded in 1948 as a special agency of the United Nations. The WHO goal is “the attainment by all peoples of the highest possible level of health” (WHO, 1999, p.2). To achieve this objective, the main functions of WHO are to direct and coordinate international health work by setting standards and guidelines and to provide technical assistance in cooperat...
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عنوان ژورنال: Global Public Health
سال: 2020
ISSN: 1744-1692,1744-1706
DOI: 10.1080/17441692.2020.1795222