Can someone please explain the work of WHO in simple terms.
1. Providing leadership and creating partnerships to improve health and wellbeing
- WHO partners with member states
- achieves positive outcomes for those in need
- coordinates relief efforts
- facilitates communication
2. Conducts research and provides health and wellbeing information
- carries out research
- provides grants
- funding research
- ensures the most up to date research is available
3. Setting norms and standards
- standardises the way research is carried out
- shares info about diseases internationally
- develops regulations
- provides technical assistance
- develops treatment and prevention standards
4. Developing policies to assist countries to take action to promote health and wellbeing
- helps countries in choosing immunisation programs
- develops guidelines and manuals
- publishes guides for health workers about diagnosis, treatment e.t.c.
5. Providing technical support and assisting health systems to become sustainable
- trains healthcare workers
- helps countries develop a national health finance strategy
- provides advice and personnel
6. Monitoring health and wellbeing and health and wellbeing trends
- establishes global databases to fill data gaps
- World Health Statistics– tracks changes in health status
- studies trends