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WHO is a specialized agency of the UNITED NATIONS system, and is the leading technical agency on matters relating to public health, worldwide. The World Health Organization (WHO) has been providing technical assistance to the Government of the Peoples? Republic of Bangladesh for the development and strengthening of the country?s public health systems since 1972. WHO defines health "as a state of complete, physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity". To realize the objective of attaining the highest possible level of health by all people, WHO has formulated a corporate strategy comprised of seven strategic directions and six core functions, which provide a broad framework for focusing WHO's collaboration with countries. In addition, a six-year Medium-term Strategic Plan based on thirteen strategic objectives (SOs) has been developed for Bangladesh and other SEAR countries.
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Traditional medicine: China's competitive advantage
- 2007-07-01
ABSTRACT Traditional knowledge is evolving information derived from a community, its experience, and its culture. Indigenous health systems utilize traditional medicine that is regarded as traditional knowledge. The demand for and commercial market value of traditional medicine continues to increase with both developed and developing countries seeking it as...
Good governance at the supranational scale: globalizing administrative law.
- 2006-05-01
This Article examines the tension between the demonstrable need for structured international cooperation in a world of interdependence and the political strain that arises whenever policymaking authority is lodged in global institutions. It argues that the tools of administrative law, which have been used to legitimate regulatory decisionmaking in the...
Global Solar UV Index: Australian Measurements, Forecasts and Comparison with the UK6
- 2004-01-01
ABSTRACTThe 2002 revision of the UV index UVI issued by the World Health Organisation WHO, the World Meteorological Office WMO, the United Nations Environment Programme UNEP and the International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection ICNIRP (World Health Organization [2002] Global Solar UV Index: A Practical Guide. WHO, Geneva) was motivated...
A geographical prespective on HIV/AIDS in India.
- 2002-01-01
The twin plagues of HIV and AIDS certainly count among the least tractable epidemiological disasters facing today's world. Initially diagnosed in developed countries, the epidemic of HIV/AIDS was first tracked among populations of homosexual and bisexual males. But as it reached developing countries the epidemic spread increasingly through heterosexual contact,...
Scientific Uncertainty and Learning in European Union Environmental Policymaking.
- 2000-09-22
Scientific uncertainty characterizes policymaking in many environmental issue areas. Policymakers must rely on scientists to bring environmental problems to their attention, design and prescribe policy solutions, and to define and evaluate policy effectiveness. An important theoretical question is: What role does organizational learning play in ...
Oral Contraceptives — An Update
- 2000-03-22
Four decades after introduction of the pill, more women than ever are using it. Today's low-dose oral contraceptives are safer and just as effective as earlier pills. Taken regularly, the pill prevents pregnancy almost without fail. Pill users benefit in other ways, too, such as less anemia and protection from...
Factor Structures of Taiwanese Teachers' Ratings of ADHD: A Comparison with U.S. Studies.(Statistical Data Included)
- 2000-01-01
Historically, symptoms of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder ADHD have been subjected to numerous redefinitions and relabeling (Goldstein & Goldstein, 1990). For example, the term hyperkinetic reaction of childhood was first mentioned in the second edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-II) to ...
Closing the Condom Gap
- 1999-04-01
The need for condoms is growing as HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted infections STIs spread. Making condoms more accessible, lowering their cost, promoting them more, and helping to overcome social and personal obstacles to their use would save many lives and reduce the enormous consequences and costs of STIs and...
Care for postabortion complications: saving women's lives
- 1997-09-01
In developing countries each year more than half a million women die from maternal causes. Nearly all of these deaths could be prevented. Efforts to prevent maternal deaths from one major cause--complications of unsafe abortion--are crucial but inadequate in most of the world. Providing appropriate medical care immediately could save...
People who move: new reproductive health focus
- 1996-11-01
Migrants, refugees, and internally displaced persons are among the world's most vulnerable people. Clustered on the margins of cities or culturally isolated within them, housed in camps meant to be temporary, or without homes at all, they often have urgent health needs, including reproductive health. Programs and relief agencies are...
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