The World Health Organization (WHO)

The World Health Organization (WHO)

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1-157

  Lee, Kelley ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 85145134914     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203029732     Document Type: Book

References (17)

1. Burci, Gian Luca and Claude-Henri Vignes, World Health Organization (The Hague: Kluwer Law International, 2004). The authors, as former and existing legal counsel to the WHO, provide a useful reference to the organization’s formal structure, mandate and constituencies based on a close reading of its Constitution and other official documents.
2. Fenner, Frank, Donald Ainslie Henderson, Isao Arita and Ivan Danilovich Ladnyi, Smallpox and its Eradication (Geneva: WHO, 1988). This substantial tome, a detailed account of the smallpox and malaria eradication programs, provides fascinating insights into how the initiatives were conceived and carried out with varying degrees of success.
3. Garrett, Laurie, Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001). While this book is not ostensibly about the WHO, it reflects widespread concern about the worrying state of public health worldwide in the early twenty-first century, and the failings of existing institutions to meet urgent needs. The book focuses especially on the interrelatedness of public health issues across national borders, and the need for strengthened international health cooperation.
4. Koivusalo, Meri and Eeva Ollila, Making a Healthy World: Agencies, Actors and Policies in International Health (London: Zed Books, 1997). This book was written amid discussions about the reform of the WHO in the late 1990s as the first book to provide a comprehensive account of the major institutions involved in international health cooperation. Along with the organization, financing and activities of the WHO, it covers the World Bank, UNICEF, the UNFPA and the UNDP.
5. Lee, Kelley, Historical Dictionary of the World Health Organization (Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 1998). This is largely a reference text, containing entries on major aspects of the WHO’s structure, activities, membership and financing, along with a brief introductory chapter on the organization’s history.
6. Siddiqi, Javed, World Health and World Politics: The World Health Organization and the U.N. System (London: Hurst & Company, 1995). This is one of the few analyses of the political nature of decision making within the WHO, focused on malaria control but having wider relevance to understanding the history of the organization’s work and membership.
7. Vaughan, J. Patrick, Sigrun Mogedal, Stein-Erik Kruse, Kelley Lee, Gill Walt and Koen de Wilde, Cooperation for Health Development: Extrabudgetary Funds in the World Health Organization (London: Governments of Australia, Norway and the UK, 1995). This report, known as Oslo I, was the first detailed analysis of trends in WHO financing from funds provided voluntarily to the organization, and the implications for priorities and activities pursued.
8. WHO, The First Ten Years of the World Health Organization (Geneva: WHO, 1958). A useful text describing international health cooperation prior to the WHO’s founding, as well as the meetings and negotiations leading up to its creation in 1948.
9. World Health Organization main website maintained in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish: www.who.int. The websites of the six regional offices of the WHO are as follows: African Regional Office (Brazzaville) website is maintained in English and French: www.afro.who.int/
10. Americas Regional Office/Pan American Health Organization (Washington, D.C.) website is maintained in English and Spanish: www.paho.org Eastern Mediterranean Regional Office (Cairo) website is maintained in Arabic and English: www.emro.who.int/
11. European Regional Office (Copenhagen) website is maintained in English, French, German and Russian: www.euro.who.int/
12. Southeast Asian Regional Office (Delhi) website is maintained in English: www.searo.who.int/
13. Western Pacific Regional Office (Manila) website is maintained in English: www.wpro.who.int/
14. Global Health Council, formerly the National Council of International Health, is a US-based non-profit organization created in 1972 to identify priority world health problems and to report on them to the US public, legislators, international and domestic government agencies, academic institutions and the global health community. Its website offers information on a wide range of global health issues: www.globalhealth.org/
15. UNAIDS, of which WHO is a co-sponsor, provides the most comprehensive information on the HIV/AIDS pandemic and international cooperation to address it: www.unaids.org.
16. The trend towards open access publishing in public health has led to the free availability of peer-reviewed journals with articles relevant to global health.
17. PLoS Medicine http://medicine.plosjournals.org/Globalization and Health www.globalizationandhealth.com/