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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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Managing Crises: Lessons for Managers from the SARS Outbreak in China
- 2007-09-01
An examination of the events and responses surrounding the SARS Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome crisis provides a context to analyze crisis management strategy. Herein, we suggest that organizations need to expand the breadth of crisis management to respond proactively to an array of potential threats. Herein, we also introduce an...
Asia still not prepared for pandemic: WHO
- 2006-09-19
MANILA AFP — The Asia-Pacific region is still not prepared to handle the threat from emerging infectious diseases such as bird flu, according to the World Health Organization WHO. To help the region better prepare, the WHO has released what it described as a "road map" for governments on how...
PANDEMIC
- 2006-08-01
Is bird flu a disaster waiting to happen... or just hype? Looking at the science can help facility executives weigh emergency planning options While a horrified nation watched as Hurricane Katrina nearly destroyed New Orleans in late August 2005, the destruction shouldn't have been a surprise to elected...
China investigating potential human bird flu death in 2003
- 2006-06-27
BEIJING AFP — China is investigating the possibility that a man died of bird flu in Beijing in 2003, two years before the country officially announced its first human case, the World Health Organization WHO has said. In a letter to the New England Journal of Medicine last week,...
Combating infectious diseases in East Asia: securitization and global public goods for health and human security.(PREVENTION, MITIGATION and PREPAREDNESS)
- 2006-03-22
Since the Asia-wide outbreak of the SARS virus in 2003, the threats from infectious diseases have become more severe. No sooner had the region begun to recover from the devastating impact of SARS than news about the rising incidence of avian influenza cases--on almost a daily ...
The deadliest virus.(In Box)(John Barry's views on avian flu prevetion measures)(Interview)
- 2006-01-01
After reading John Barry's The at Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague In History, U.S. President George W. Bush put the country on high alert for avian flu. With the World Health Organization WHO predicting a death toll of up to 100 million, FP spoke...
Global bird flu outbreak merely a matter of time: WHO
- 2005-10-13
SEOUL AFP — The head of the World Health Organization WHO warned that it was just a matter of time before a global bird flu epidemic broke out, with disastrous results which would dwarf the impact from SARS. "Considering the current situation, it seems to be a matter of...
Avian flu from an occupational health perspective.
- 2005-03-01
ABSTRACT. Although a pandemic scenario necessarily involves a situation in which a large number of people become infected in a nonoccupational setting, past infectious disease events have highlighted the unique role that occupational exposure may play in the emergence of disease in humans. While small-scale poultry...
WHO and FAO kept in dark on bird flu virus found in pigs in China
- 2004-08-20
BEIJING AFP ? UN health and agriculture officials in China said they were not informed by the government of the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus being found in pigs, the first such discovery in the world. The surprising revelation was made by China's National Avian Influenza Reference Laboratory director...
WHO declares Chinese SARS outbreak contained
- 2004-05-18
BEIJING AFP ? The World Health Organization WHO declared the latest SARS outbreak in China contained, saying in a statement the chain of human-to-human transmission appeared to have been broken. "It has been more than three weeks since the last case was placed in isolation in Chinas latest SARS...
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