The World Health Organization: no game of thrones

Balance of thrones: a network study on 'Game of Thrones'

How do social interactions in fictional words? Here we show that network theory can be used to systematically and quantitatively analyse relationships among noble houses and how the web of alliances and conflicts changes over time in the fantasy drama TV series Game of Thrones. Network analysis proved to be a powerful tool in capturing structures and dynamics of the story. Degree distribution a...

The World Health Organization *

T H E ATTAINMENT of the highest possible level of hea l th by all the people of the world is the challenging objective of the new World Heal th Organization, whose constitution was signed on July 2 2 , 1946 , by representatives of 6 1 nations. This organization, established by the Internat ional Health Conference held in New York City, is the first fully empowered international agency in public...

World Health Organization Technical Report Series No. 275

Development of International Trade in Health Services in the Legal System of World Trade Organization

The World Trade Organization, as one of the youngest international organizations following its 50th activity of predecessor means the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade in the Multilateral Trade System, through the establishment of a General Agreement on Trade in Services, regulated the domain of International Trade in services and by designating Integrated legal framework for the advanceme...

Democratizing the world health organization.

A progressive erosion of the democratic space appears as one of the emerging challenges in global health today. Such delimitation of the political interplay has a particularly evident impact on the unique public interest function of the World Health Organization (WHO). This paper aims to identify some obstacles for a truly democratic functioning of the UN specialized agency for health. The deve...